Firefox 1.0.2 scroll wheel navigation

otchie1 · 03-30-2005, 07:51 AM

grrrrrrr,,snarl...growl.

Whenever I try to scroll up in a page,m when I reach the top of the page FF devides that i want to activate the BACK button. Same thing happnes then for scrolling down and FORWARD.

I can't find any mention of this feature (lol) which either means that it's just me or that everyone else LIKES this behaviour....surely not?

Can this be turned off or am I back to Opera?

win32sux · 03-30-2005, 08:11 AM

weird stuff... i've never had that kinda behavior on my firefox...

when did it start doing that??

Orkie · 03-30-2005, 08:21 AM

I have it sometimes, though not when I reach the top of the page, it is when I hold down shift by accident whilst scrolling.

win32sux · 03-30-2005, 08:26 AM

i can confirm that also... i actually never noticed it before...

but yeah, if i hold-down the shift key when i scroll up i get taken back and scrolling down i get taken forward... but only when holding down the shift key...

nathanmoorehead · 03-30-2005, 01:32 PM

This works with XP also...fyi

otchie1 · 03-31-2005, 05:22 AM

thx all...i must have enabled a hidden feature somehow...i'll see if ripping it out and starting again helps

otchie1 · 03-31-2005, 05:39 AM

Found it.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf still had legacy enteries to my 7 button mouse and referenced scroll as 6 7.

Xmodmap was half managing to get it all to work...quick edit and sorted

damn i like linux

Greenfuse · 10-10-2006, 08:29 AM

Thanks for finding the solution, it was driving me nuts

s26c.sayan · 03-08-2007, 03:57 AM

I was having the same problem with FF 2. If i scrolled up(down) too fast, it navigated BAck(Forward), which is quite annoying!!It never happened to FF in Ubuntu, but only in my new ARch Linux installation.

I think it is sorted now by changing the key "mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action" in about:config to value 1 (instead of 2).

Spankin Partier · 04-15-2007, 12:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by otchie1

Found it.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf still had legacy enteries to my 7 button mouse and referenced scroll as 6 7.

Xmodmap was half managing to get it all to work...quick edit and sorted

damn i like linux

Thank-you!!! I've been suffering from this problem my self ever since I installed Gentoo a couple of months ago! Don't know how I eventually found this thread, but I was searching Google for weeks without any avail.