On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Saturday 26 June 2010 19:08:58 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Alan McKinnon > <alan.mckin...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > On Saturday 26 June 2010 17:44:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > > It's weird. > > > > > > > > Sometimes, but not always, when I click in the Firefox scrollbar, it > > > > > > starts > > > > > > > heading in the right direction in fits and starts of 5 pixels or so > > > > until it (finallly) reaches the end. I've mostly observed this in > the > > > > downward direction, but I mostly scroll in that direction anyway so > it > > > > might not mean anything. > > > > > > > > What's wrong about this is that a single click should not do this, > and > > > > > > does > > > > > > > not do this, on any other scrollbar on my machine. A single click > > > > moves the "thumb" thingie a fixed amount which depends on where you > > > > click. The worst part is that the application won't do anything else > > > > until the scrolling is finished, and the scrolling for a very tall > > > > page can take a couple of minutes. > > > > > > > > I keep trying to remember that dragging the "thumb" still works as > > > > expected, but clicking is an old habit that's hard to drop. > > > > > > > > Am I the only one seeing this? > > > > > > I don't see that. What settings do you have for scrolling? > > > > > > Firefox config dialog -> Advanced -> General > > > > Firefox-3.6.3 -> Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> General checked: - > > Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages > > - Use autoscrolling > > - Always check to see if Firefox is the default browser on startup > > > > I guess both of the first two are suspects, but AFAICR I've never touched > > these. > > My setup is similar, so I don't know where to go from here :-) > > And someone else reported that heir konqueror does it too. If these things > are > related that would cancel out Firefox itself and move over to the video > system > > Maybe. It's also possible I'm seeing it when working with email. I do that in several ways, though, and I'll have to figure out which combination(s) actually give me trouble. Then I guess it will be bug-writing time. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
