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| Thread ID: 51854 | 2004-12-01 19:06:00 | Scroll mouse problem | Greg S (201) | Press F1 |
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| 298761 | 2004-12-01 19:06:00 | I've got the most annoying bug when I use the scroll wheel to scroll down a page on the Internet. After scrolling down and releasing the wheel, about 10 seconds later the page jumps a few more lines. You can imagine how frustrating it is when reading text, suddenly to lose the place where you were reading. The problem is worse of course when crappy webmasters use tiny fonts. The mouse is an MS optical intellimouse. Browser is Netscape 7.2, and running on WinXP Pro sp1. Mouse is using latest drivers. Thx for any insight. |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 298762 | 2004-12-01 19:56:00 | Greg S I don't have Netscape 7.2, but do have 7.1 and am guessing they are similar. Have you checked the settings in Netscape? In my version click on Edit, Preferences and then Advanced. Under Mouse Wheel have you got Use system default enabled next to Scroll document by? Check to see you do not have Scroll a page up or a page down enabled. Oxie (Lyn) |
Oxie (1318) | ||
| 298763 | 2004-12-01 20:10:00 | It happens to me sometimes as well using an Intellimouse Explorer with Firefox. I suspect it is something still loading on the page that makes it jump when it completes. I'm sure it happens more on sites with flash ads, although most of these are blocked, the constantly changing servers catch me out from time to time. | Murray P (44) | ||
| 298764 | 2004-12-01 21:37:00 | Thx folks. Oxie... under my scroll preferences I've got 4 tabs: No modifier tab Alt Control Shift They were all set to "Use system default" except under Alt, which was set as "Move back and forward..." which I've now changed to system default. We'll see if that works. Murray - if you contemplate going to 7.2 I advise against it - wish I hadn't upgraded from 7.1 coz this one is a bit buggy. |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 298765 | 2004-12-01 21:38:00 | > Murray - if you contemplate going to 7.2 I advise > against it - wish I hadn't upgraded from 7.1 coz this > one is a bit buggy. Oops - I meant Oxie |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 298766 | 2004-12-01 21:43:00 | Greg S Thanks for the warning. I think I will stick with 7.1 as it has been so reliable and the best version of Netscape I have ever had. Oxie (Lyn) |
Oxie (1318) | ||
| 298767 | 2004-12-01 22:18:00 | This happens to me but I figured it was because I was scrolling down before the page had finished loading, or loading enough, and then the scroll down feature was being activated once the page had downloaded enough so it seemed like it was doing it itself where it was actaully just catching up. Hope this makes sense. :^O |
mark c (247) | ||
| 298768 | 2004-12-01 23:25:00 | My Microsoft Intellimouse has troubles too - but it's atleast 4 years old and is the ball incarnation. I'd say open it - but you may not want to be adventurous... |
Growly (6) | ||
| 298769 | 2004-12-02 00:07:00 | > My Microsoft Intellimouse has troubles too - but it's > atleast 4 years old and is the ball incarnation. > > I'd say open it - but you may not want to be > adventurous... Strange as it may seem, and funny you should happen to mention it, but... optical mouses don't have balls! (Not to say that they're sissy things of course! LOL) |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 298770 | 2004-12-02 00:10:00 | > > My Microsoft Intellimouse has troubles too - but > it's > > atleast 4 years old and is the ball incarnation . > > > > I'd say open it - but you may not want to be > > adventurous . . . > > Strange as it may seem, and funny you should happen > to mention it, but . . . optical mouses don't have > balls! (Not to say that they're sissy things of > course! LOL) > Should take it back then Greg, it's obviously sloppy work by the production line brick clappers . |
Murray P (44) | ||
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