cant scroll with laptop touchpad

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lonstar70
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cant scroll with laptop touchpad

Post by lonstar70 »

I just installed firefox and I will be going back to IE if I cant find a solution to this. I have a gateway laptop and the mouse is one of those rectanglar touchpads. To scroll up and down on a page, there is a part of the touch pad where you just move your finger up or down, and it acts like the scroll wheel on a regular mouse. It works with IE but not firefox. I looked in settings and cant find anything. Can someone help me out with this?
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Post by vl »

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/2007072518 Firefox/2.0.0.6
lonstar70
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Post by lonstar70 »

Wow. What a quick reply. And it worked, too. Thanks a lot.
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You guys are awesome

Post by KneeDeep03 »

I have to tell you folks. I bought this gateway yesterday and ran into this problem. One stop here and boom! touch scroll now works in Firefox.

Thanks bunches. (and people asked me why I donate to you folks...heh)

hey! someone took my screen name? lol

thanks again,

KneeDeep
notgoodwcomps
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Re: cant scroll with laptop touchpad

Post by notgoodwcomps »

I have the same problem but it is not just for Firefox. It doesn't work in any window. Any ideas?
coolgirl
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Re: cant scroll with laptop touchpad

Post by coolgirl »

u just put two fingers on the touchpad and use one of them to scroll
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Re: cant scroll with laptop touchpad

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