Firefox mouse problem

dadx2mj · Posted: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 21:01:01 Post Subject: Firefox mouse problem

OK I have installed and set up Firefox as my default browser and it is going pretty good. I have one very annoying problem right now tho. When I go to the page to submit a reply in any forum none of the scroll features on my Logitech MX500 will work. Not the wheel or the scroll button. So I have to use the arrows on the side of screen. Once off the submit reply page the mouse scrolling features work fine. This is happening on all the forums I go to. Anyone else have this problem or better yet know of a fix?

thePMG · Rated XXX Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 393 Location: Germany

Click somewhere outside of the replybox and then see if you can scroll.

dadx2mj · Posted: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 21:57:16 Post Subject:

DOH talk about feeling like a dumb a$$. Thanks PMG

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 22:09:23 Post Subject:

Thats the same in IE, isn't it?

GET THE NOOB!!! Laughing

dadx2mj · Posted: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 22:24:21 Post Subject:

I dont think so. At least I never had it happen to me.

Yeah I am a Firefox noob come and get me while you can because I wont be one for long Grin

thePMG · Rated XXX Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 393 Location: Germany

Let me know if you have anymore questions, I'll try to answer them to the best of my ability.

Spire · Posted: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 01:46:00 Post Subject:

You know what sucks most about this post?

I didn't get the chance to throw a "NOOB!!!" out. Grin

Enforcer · Posted: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 12:15:12 Post Subject:

This one did send me through a loop though. I did notice that on some pages on some sites in firefox if the mouse is hovering over a certain area the scroll won't work but if I move away it does, this didn't happen in IE. a good example of this is espn.com. I have the espnmotion thing setup, and the mouse will not scroll on some areas of the page in firefox, yet in IE it scrolls everywhere. Whether this is a result of Firefox rendering the page "correctly" or a big remains to be seen. I'd like to think its because IE doesn't read the tags right according to W3 standards and allows it. I don't know if thats the case however.

Dud3! · Posted: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:32:41 Post Subject:

Any time there's a text box, drop-down menu, frame, etc, the wheel should scroll that instead of the main document.

If your mouse is set to click to focus, then it (and everything else) gets annoying. I don't recommend setting focus follows mouse in windows though, it's more trouble than it's worth since it's not done properly.