If you press and hold the up or down key it will scroll rather than
jump from link to link.

On Dec 3, 2007 1:04 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!
>
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