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dax965

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Registered: 2007-09-09

Posts: 35

Middle click firefox scroll

In windows firefox when you click the middle mouse button, then move your mouse up and down, it scrolls.  This is not the case in linux, it just does nothing.  Is there a way to do this in linux?

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: Middle click firefox scroll

Go to the address bar-->
Type 'about:config'
Under "Filter" type 'scroll'
Double click on the line "general.autoScroll"

That should change the value from false to true.

dax965

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Registered: 2007-09-09

Posts: 35

Re: Middle click firefox scroll

Go to the address bar-->
Type 'about:config'
Under "Filter" type 'scroll'
Double click on the line "general.autoScroll"

That should change the value from false to true.

Thanks!  I couldn't find this answer anywhere.

Warren Watts

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Registered: 2007-09-09

Posts: 22

Re: Middle click firefox scroll

On a related note:
Firefox defaulted on my Arch install to use the middle mouse click as a "load URL" function.  Clicking the middle button while hovering over a URL would open the page. 
Nifty feature, but the wheel button on my mouse is way oversensitive, and I was forever accidentally clicking the button while scrolling the page up and down with the wheel, which would result in Firefox trying to open a new page with whatever text was under the mouse at the time.  Terribly frustrating! 
I came across this thread, looked in my Firefox about:config, and discovered:

middlemouse.contentLoadURL was set to true.

Double-clicked it, problem went away! So, indirectly, Thanks!

Last edited by Warren Watts (2007-09-27 15:26:18)

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