Firefox scrollng wierdness [SOLVED]

ralvy · 2006-05-27 14:57:39

Lately I've noticed that, only when running Arch, Firefox has strange scrolling behavior. If I quickly scroll down or up, Firefox appears to be moving back or forward among the viewed pages. This only happens when scrolling quickly.

I don't see any option in Firefox to change this, and it doesn't happen under CentOS 4.3, Slackware Current, or Mepis 6 Beta 3.

stonecrest · 2006-05-27 14:58:40

Are you using a touchpad by any chance?

lessthanjake · 2006-05-27 15:03:46

Same her, bin like that for a few months, dont know why and I dont like it. Btw: I'm using a normal mouse.

ralvy · 2006-05-27 15:09:33

stonecrest wrote:

Are you using a touchpad by any chance?

No. Just a normal three-button mouse. I really don't like this behavior. I may consider reporting this as a bug on Flyspray. I'll wait to see what others say about it here first.

ralvez · 2006-05-27 15:56:20

Same here when scrolling with the wheel. It may be a bug ... unless it is an undocumented feature

elasticdog · 2006-05-27 16:10:54

Try running the command <code>xev</code> and then see if your scroll wheel is generating more than one ButtonPress/ButtonRelease event. Before I had my buttons set up properly (Logitech MX500), the auto-scroll buttons would add on an additional event on the end of that process that would do back/forward in Firefox much like you've described.

colnago · 2006-05-27 16:33:59

I had the same issue. I fixed it by putting an...

   Option "Buttons" "5"

into my xorg.conf.

ScriptDevil · 2006-05-28 04:14:15

funny, i never had the problem though i use a 2 button + wheel(which is also the third button) Logitech mouse

ralvy · 2006-05-28 13:52:19

colnago wrote:

I had the same issue. I fixed it by putting an...
   Option "Buttons" "5"
 
into my xorg.conf.

Just tried this, and I still get the odd scrolling behavior. Again, this only happes with Arch.

ralvy · 2006-05-28 14:04:34

ralvy wrote:

colnago wrote:
I had the same issue. I fixed it by putting an...
   Option "Buttons" "5"
 
into my xorg.conf.
Just tried this, and I still get the odd scrolling behavior. Again, this only happes with Arch.

Later ... following up on similar reasoning, I looked inside my Mepis 6 xorg.conf to see what might be different. Changing

"ZAxisMapping"  "4 5 6 7"

to

ZAxisMapping "4 5"

resolved this.

shadowhand · 2006-05-28 15:50:51

There's a Wiki called Get All Mouse Buttons Working that would have helped as well.

ralvy · 2006-05-28 18:16:55

shadowhand wrote:

There's a Wiki called Get All Mouse Buttons Working that would have helped as well.

I must admit, as much as I love Arch, I think its Wiki is so hard to find information from on a specific topic. To find that article, I had to do a Google search on its full name, which presupposed I knew of its existence to begin with. If I just used the Wiki HowTos, I would'nt have found it.

MillTek · 2006-05-29 04:11:49

I thought it was just me. Firefox has been doing that for a while on my machine. I have also noticed that if I open Konqueror filemanager window in detailed list mode and scroll down quickly that the display of files shifts to the left as if I had used the scroll bar on the bottom to do it. I'm away for a few days but I'll check when I get home to see if this fix works for me on Firefox and on konqueror.

Thanks,

Jim

MillTek · 2006-06-07 19:16:16

Thanks!

synthead · 2008-02-20 01:26:17

Brabi wrote:

Quick solution: In about:config , set "mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action" to "0".
I used to have the same problem and this works for me .

Old thread, but I searched the forums and got here. Tried this, and it worked like a 'beaud.

depp · 2008-03-21 03:50:47

synthead wrote:

Brabi wrote:
Quick solution: In about:config , set "mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action" to "0".
I used to have the same problem and this works for me .
Old thread, but I searched the forums and got here. Tried this, and it worked like a 'beaud.

Same here, thanks!

praka123 · 2008-03-21 03:52:05

oh well!I am experiencing the same problem!thx for this thread!do this reached mozilla BTS?

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