On Saturday 26 June 2010 19:08:58 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > 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.
My setup is similar, so I don't know where to go from here :-) And someone else reported that heir konqueror does it too. If these things are related that would cancel out Firefox itself and move over to the video system -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
