Firefox 3 and scroll wheel

stan stanb at panix.com
Mon Jun 23 11:42:12 UTC 2008


On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 01:06:06AM -0500, Mumia W. wrote:
> stan wrote:
> > After upgrading to Firefox 3 I have observed some truly annoying behavior.
> > When I use the scroll wheel on the mouse to scroll up, if I scroll to far
> > the browser goes back to previous sites in history. I find this really
> > annoying. How can I turn this "feature" off?
> > 
> 
> That doesn't happen with me. I can only suggest you use auto-scrolling 
> until you figure out the problem: "Preferences-> Advances-> Use 
> autoscrolling."
> 
> Auto-scrolling is activated through a middle-click on a web page.
> 

Interesting. It happens on several machines that I have upgraded to 8.04
and thus Firefox 3. Has anyone else observed this behavior?

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