Is there anyway to make Firefox's scrolling exacty like IEs?
- Thread starter Nocturnal
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It's different about using a scrollwheel in and around textboxes. You have to click on whatever area to get it to scroll if you have a page with both. I expect this to be patched.
- Jan 8, 2002
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Yes, exactly. I hated this and this is one of the main reasons I went back to IE. However, it's been like this for quite sometime and even with the regular Firebird and Mozilla you have to click on the main webpage outside of the text box in order for it to scroll.
I got used to it in a day and a half. I'd never give up tabbed browsing for some silly scroll thing. Keep checking their site to see when they release a patch.
sh~t, i knew it cost, but i didnt know it cost that much.
i might pay $10 if someone had an awesome browser that absolutely had no comparison to it, but i sure as hell wouldnt pay $39
Scroll as in autoscroll when you click the middle mouse button? Yeah, that is a easy thing to setup in Firefox and I still have middle mouse set to open a link in a new tab.
Anywho, Xmouse functionality in XP doesn't seem to work as I was used to it.
Anywho, Xmouse functionality in XP doesn't seem to work as I was used to it.
Ciber
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- Nov 20, 2000
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Just use MyIE2 it gives the IE core tabbed browsing and most of the other features found in Firefox without all the firefox sucking. You can also customize the toolbar much more in MyIE2 than you can in Firefox, one of the reasons i dropped that crap, even after trying to customize it the damn toolbar was just too big in Firefox.
I am definetely keeping myIE2. Very useful.. tabbing and the mouse things are great, 5 minutes spent memorizing the commands and i can browse faster than before...
Adul
Elite Member
NP using Firefox 0.8 . I can scroll inside textboxes just by moving the mouse
Dosent come default but there is a extension fix for that actually its a mouse gesture extension. Ya it's maybe the difference between Unix desktop vs Windows that is causing the problem.
In a linux desktop enviroment you can control how the windows responds to mice and the positioning of the arrow...
Like you can have "sloppy" focus, were you just move the mouse to the window and it becomes active, or you can choose the option of having to click on the window to activate it.
Personally how I like it is to have it so that the arrow automaticly focuses on the window it is over. Then I turn the autoraise off. That way I can have a window in the forground and type in a window in the background and switch back and forth easier. In order to raise the window you have to left click on it, but other button presses (such as right click, middle clicks, and scroll buttons) let it stay in the background.
Anyways. If their is some feature you want, check out the extensions. If something annoyed you, then the likelyhood that it annoyed someone else is fairly good and they programmed a fix for it.
Also be sure to check out mozilla, it has still a lot more options and stuff then Firefox, and may have something built into it that has the behavior fixed or is selectable.
Also check out the forums at mozilla's webpage. If you have a serious enough problem you can attract the attention of the developers themselves and they may help out or fix it for the next release or something. Normally someone familar enough with the programming will usually help out, but you have to be nice and helpfull with your information. Because most of these people do it to be nice, not because they get paid for it.
If you considure it a bug, then check out the bugtraq system were they catagorize and number bugs reported by individuals. Make sure that this issue hasn't been filed before and if you are willing to put a little extra effort into it you can make your own bug reports (their are some rules and they need certian information to be helpfull, otherwise information can be useless if they can't figure out what is going on and the exact build of your browser).
But mostly the forums is a good place for information and to explain your problem, and they want feedback so that they can find and fix little annoying issues like mouse focus that maybe a developer normally just wouldn't notice or care much about.
For instance I had a annoying issue with Mozilla and Firebird were sometimes it would add http:// infront of a already valid http://www.blahblah.com/ url, thus sending me to some horrid place like http.www.com or something. I figured they fix it over time, but it was persistant thru a couple different versions/builds. I went to the forums and tried to convince people that it was realy a problem and not me being retarded by mistyping it, and couple other people mentioned they had the problem, too. Next release, it was fixed. Now it's a non-issue.
(not garrentee'ing anything of course. Mozilla is a gigantic project and sometimes it's just not worth it to fix every little thing for everybody, since it might piss off people already use to that behavior, but it's worth mentioning.)
But if that mouse genstures extension (ever play the game Black& White? Mouse gestures allow you to navigate links, backup, refresh, open new tabs, just buy moving the mouse in a specific manner. Plus one extension allows you to do red trails when executing mouse gestures, so it's funny to see people's faces when you make a zig-zag to open links in new tabs and stuff)
In a linux desktop enviroment you can control how the windows responds to mice and the positioning of the arrow...
Like you can have "sloppy" focus, were you just move the mouse to the window and it becomes active, or you can choose the option of having to click on the window to activate it.
Personally how I like it is to have it so that the arrow automaticly focuses on the window it is over. Then I turn the autoraise off. That way I can have a window in the forground and type in a window in the background and switch back and forth easier. In order to raise the window you have to left click on it, but other button presses (such as right click, middle clicks, and scroll buttons) let it stay in the background.
Anyways. If their is some feature you want, check out the extensions. If something annoyed you, then the likelyhood that it annoyed someone else is fairly good and they programmed a fix for it.
Also be sure to check out mozilla, it has still a lot more options and stuff then Firefox, and may have something built into it that has the behavior fixed or is selectable.
Also check out the forums at mozilla's webpage. If you have a serious enough problem you can attract the attention of the developers themselves and they may help out or fix it for the next release or something. Normally someone familar enough with the programming will usually help out, but you have to be nice and helpfull with your information. Because most of these people do it to be nice, not because they get paid for it.
If you considure it a bug, then check out the bugtraq system were they catagorize and number bugs reported by individuals. Make sure that this issue hasn't been filed before and if you are willing to put a little extra effort into it you can make your own bug reports (their are some rules and they need certian information to be helpfull, otherwise information can be useless if they can't figure out what is going on and the exact build of your browser).
But mostly the forums is a good place for information and to explain your problem, and they want feedback so that they can find and fix little annoying issues like mouse focus that maybe a developer normally just wouldn't notice or care much about.
For instance I had a annoying issue with Mozilla and Firebird were sometimes it would add http:// infront of a already valid http://www.blahblah.com/ url, thus sending me to some horrid place like http.www.com or something. I figured they fix it over time, but it was persistant thru a couple different versions/builds. I went to the forums and tried to convince people that it was realy a problem and not me being retarded by mistyping it, and couple other people mentioned they had the problem, too. Next release, it was fixed. Now it's a non-issue.
(not garrentee'ing anything of course. Mozilla is a gigantic project and sometimes it's just not worth it to fix every little thing for everybody, since it might piss off people already use to that behavior, but it's worth mentioning.)
But if that mouse genstures extension (ever play the game Black& White? Mouse gestures allow you to navigate links, backup, refresh, open new tabs, just buy moving the mouse in a specific manner. Plus one extension allows you to do red trails when executing mouse gestures, so it's funny to see people's faces when you make a zig-zag to open links in new tabs and stuff)
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