Firefox: mouse wheel stops working!

Mon Dec 5 08:47:36 UTC 2005

Luca Manganelli wrote:
> Hi, I have a (stupid?) problem with my ubuntu 5.10:
> 
> in Firefox if I use the scroll page (i.e. in this page:
> http://www.ilpuntotecnicoeadsl.com/forum/index.php/topic,1190.0.html )
> the mouse wheel works for 5-10 seconds, after not anymore!
> 
> Does anyone know this bug?
> 

I have this problem too, sometimes and I haven't got a solution. As a 
temporary work around try this. I fix it by clicking on the scrollbar 
and moving it or scrolling once on top the vertical scrollbar seems to 
fix it as well.

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  - Saru
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Sarangan Thuraisingham
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