* William Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:50:01AM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote:
> > I've never seen a mouse that has worked like this. By definition a
> > scrollwheel is a wheel, you roll it forward to scroll up and roll it
> > back to scroll down. All the ones I've seen also be pressed down to
> > initiate a 3rd button click. Does your mouse not have these abilities? 
> 
> In FireFox you push and hold the scroll wheel and move the mouse up and 
> down to also scroll.

Only if you have autoscrolling on, which is off by default, so you
turned it on. You can disable it in the preferences menu. 
 
> Scroll wheel up and down -> scroll
> Push scroll wheel, don't move mouse, release scroll wheel -> no action
> Push scroll wheel, move mouse up or down w/o release -> scroll
> Double-click scroll wheel twice -> paste

With autoscrolling turned on, I see these behaviors. 

> It's this last thing I'm doing accidentally sometimes and pasting my 
> clipboard to google with :-)
> 

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