hi, you can disable the "spatial navigation" feature if you want to, just open a browser window, load "about:config". At "set preference" related input fields, set "snav.enabled" to "0" . Scroll will be performed always in that way.
regards On Dec 3, 2007 5:04 PM, Daniel M German <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I installed OS 2008 two days ago. It is a very nice upgrade. Thank you > to all go have been involved. > > The only real annoyance that I have experienced is the different > behaviour of how the "up" and "down" hardware keys behave inside the > Web browser. > > In OS 2007, whenever the currently displayed area of the page did not > have any links, pressing the down key will just scroll down a little > bit. If there was a link below, it will jump to that link. > > The current behaviour jumps from link to link, regardless of where in > the page they are. Once has to scroll with the other hand. > > Jumping from link to link makes for very erratic behaviour, too. > > I presume this is a result of moving from the Opera engine to the > Mozilla one, and it might be difficult to implement this feature > exactly the same. > > But it would be nice to switch the behaviour of Up and Down to be more > like Up and Down in the computer: just scroll. Or even better, provide > both and let the user choose. > > I suspect there is a configuration file somewhere that tells the > browser what to do when the user presses the up/down key? > > > thank you! > > -- > -- > Daniel M. German > http://turingmachine.org/ > http://silvernegative.com/ > dmg (at) uvic (dot) ca > replace (at) with @ and (dot) with . > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > -- --Antonio Gomes _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
