Scroll Wheel Change with FF 1.5
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Scroll Wheel Change with FF 1.5
This is sort of hard to explain, but I used this feature everyday in previous versions of FF.
Before Firefox 1.5, I could press the middle mouse button (scroll wheel) and scroll by simply moving the mouse, and while scrolling on the middle mouse button, also roll the scroll wheel up or down as you were simultaneously scrolling with your mouse, and the page would jump up or down--a feature that is very handy if you are perusing news pages, etc. But for some reason, you can't do this with Firefox 1.5. Is anyone else bummed about this as I am?
<i>UPDATE:</i> Okay, so after using Firefox 1.5 some more, I discovered that when you are autoscrolling slowly (using the first two slowest speeds of autoscrolling), you cannot "sub-scroll". However, when you autoscroll a little faster (the third autoscroll speed or higher) you can "sub-scroll". I consider autoscrolling in FF 1.5 "buggy".
-bhall
Before Firefox 1.5, I could press the middle mouse button (scroll wheel) and scroll by simply moving the mouse, and while scrolling on the middle mouse button, also roll the scroll wheel up or down as you were simultaneously scrolling with your mouse, and the page would jump up or down--a feature that is very handy if you are perusing news pages, etc. But for some reason, you can't do this with Firefox 1.5. Is anyone else bummed about this as I am?
<i>UPDATE:</i> Okay, so after using Firefox 1.5 some more, I discovered that when you are autoscrolling slowly (using the first two slowest speeds of autoscrolling), you cannot "sub-scroll". However, when you autoscroll a little faster (the third autoscroll speed or higher) you can "sub-scroll". I consider autoscrolling in FF 1.5 "buggy".
-bhall
Last edited by bhall7 on December 2nd, 2005, 8:07 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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_Click_ your scroll wheel button, then release. A circular button with arrows inside will appear, allowing you to move your mouse down slightly to scroll slowly down a page. As you are slowly scrolling down, roll your mouse wheel, like you do when you scroll normally using your scroll wheel. It _should_ "sub-scroll" (jump the page down three lines) as you are slowly scrolling down. It's hard to explain, but I haven't been able to use this feature ever since I upgraded from 1.0.7 to 1.5 this week.
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howdy bhall7,
it's called "autoscrolling" and it's here ...
tools/options/advanced/general/use-autoscrolling
take care,
lee
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i JUST bothered to really read your 2nd post. sorry! that function - the thing you call subscrolling - is not a part of ff in 107 OR 150 ... at least i think not. were you using one of the mouse gesture extensions?
-lee
it's called "autoscrolling" and it's here ...
tools/options/advanced/general/use-autoscrolling
take care,
lee
edit -
i JUST bothered to really read your 2nd post. sorry! that function - the thing you call subscrolling - is not a part of ff in 107 OR 150 ... at least i think not. were you using one of the mouse gesture extensions?
-lee
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In previous versions of FF, it would let you scroll again while autoscrolling at <i>any</i> speed. With FF 1.5, you are only able to "sub-scroll" while autoscrolling at a higher rate (the third speed or higher). Not sure if this is a "feature" or not. To me, it's annoying. What was wrong with the autoscrolling in FF 1.0.7?
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howdy brian,
- went to google and set my prefs to show 100 [instead or 10] results per page [gives me a NICE LONG page to play with scrolling]
- entered "testing" as the search term
- got a nice LONG page to play on
- went to the middle of that page and mid-clicked to bring up the autoscroll icon
- moved the mous down about an inch
- scrolling started going down the page fairly fast. faster than i could read, but slow enuf that i could get a general idea
- rolled the mouse wheel and yes, it did actually change the speed noticably
if i move the mouse pointer far enuf from the autoscroll icon to give FAST speeds, then rolling the mouse wheel has no noticable effect. of course, it's so fast already that i may just not be able to see it ... [*grin*]
now, it THAT the thing you are talking about?
take care,
lee
- went to google and set my prefs to show 100 [instead or 10] results per page [gives me a NICE LONG page to play with scrolling]
- entered "testing" as the search term
- got a nice LONG page to play on
- went to the middle of that page and mid-clicked to bring up the autoscroll icon
- moved the mous down about an inch
- scrolling started going down the page fairly fast. faster than i could read, but slow enuf that i could get a general idea
- rolled the mouse wheel and yes, it did actually change the speed noticably
if i move the mouse pointer far enuf from the autoscroll icon to give FAST speeds, then rolling the mouse wheel has no noticable effect. of course, it's so fast already that i may just not be able to see it ... [*grin*]
now, it THAT the thing you are talking about?
take care,
lee
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Lee, yes, that is what I experience. But noticeably, you cannot roll the mouse wheel with any affect while you are autoscrolling at a slower speed. You have to be autoscrolling at a faster speed in order for it to allow you to roll the mouse wheel while autoscrolling. It is nice to be able to roll the wheel and "skip" down or up while autoscrolling slowly. Not sure why this changed with FF 1.5. I want 1.0.7 again. But I do like the Ctrl+Shift+Del hotkey to Clear Private Data. <sigh>
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bhall7, try middle clicking then moving the mouse pointer to the right so that it is no longer hovering over the autoscroll scroll icon. Then move slightly down to start scrolling. You should then be able to scroll with the wheel. In my case it appears that the scroll wheel does not function while hovering over the autoscroll icon.
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