On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Saturday 26 June 2010 17:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > It's weird. > > > > Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it > starts > > heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels or so until > > it (finallly) reaches the end. I've mostly observed this in the downward > > direction, but I mostly scroll in that direction anyway so it might not > > mean anything. > > > > What's wrong about this is that a single click should not do this, and > does > > not do this, on any other scrollbar on my machine. A single click moves > > the "thumb" thingie a fixed amount which depends on where you click. The > > worst part is that the application won't do anything else until the > > scrolling is finished, and the scrolling for a very tall page can take a > > couple of minutes. > > > > I keep trying to remember that dragging the "thumb" still works as > > expected, but clicking is an old habit that's hard to drop. > > > > Am I the only one seeing this? > > I don't see that. What settings do you have for scrolling? > > Firefox config dialog -> Advanced -> General > Firefox-3.6.3 -> Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> General checked: - Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages - Use autoscrolling - Always check to see if Firefox is the default browser on startup I guess both of the first two are suspects, but AFAICR I've never touched these. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD