Firefox mouse wheel issue

Just started using the Firefox browser because of the issue of IIS servers
infecting IE (with no patch available from MS for this security flaw.. very
scary!). I don't like the way Firefox uses the mousewheel, though (OR: I'm
just used to the way IE does it..) How can I make the scroll wheel perform
the way it does in IE?

Thanks!

 

*** d_jedi escribió/wrote (Sun, 27 Jun 2004 03:49:44 GMT):

In my copy of Internet Explorer, the mouse wheel scrolls the document; just
the same as in my copy of Firefox. What difference have you found?

Anyway, please go to "Tools-> Options" and check:

* Advanced-> Browsing-> Use autoscrolling
* Advanced-> Browsing-> Use smooth scrolling

I guess you have both of them disabled.

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I have both of them enabled. I guess I should have been a bit more
specific.

1) Clicking the scroll button in IE allows you to scroll just by moving
the mouse. Clicking this button appears to do nothing in Firefox.

2) IE scrolls "quicker" (ie. more lines / "scroll") than Firefox.

 

*** d_jedi escribió/wrote (Sun, 27 Jun 2004 20:17:08 GMT):

Check your mouse configuration (if using Windows, there's an icon in
Control Panel). Logitech mice allow you to specify a function for middle
mouse: change it from "middle clic" to "universal scroll" or similar one.

Mozilla allows you to specify the number of lines to scroll but I believe
Firefox doesn't. In any case, the setting is this:

mousewheel.withnokey.numlines=3 (or whatever)
mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines=false

If you type "about:config" in location bar you can try and change it.

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That is the setting I am using.. Firefox does not seem to acknowledge it.