When I use firefox the scroll feature on my touchpad does not work. But, it does work with internet explorer. Any ideas?

 

nope


...zap!

 

thanks

 

I have a laser mouse with two scroll wheels (up and down, side to side) and the scrolling feature doesn't work with Firefox. That is why I went back to IE. Images and type are clearer with IE also.

Firefox is a good, basic browser. But I like the features of IE. Apparently most agree with me since IE is still the dominant browser on the market.

Did everyone here know that 10 years ago Netscape was the default browser on 94% of the PC's in use and IE only had 4% of the market? Now IE holds well over 90%. Most people who have tried several browsers typically end up going back to IE.

 

Firefox user for life!

 

I've got a scroll mouse, and use Firefox daily. Scroll works fine for me, no problem.

-Travis

 

Not any more. It is well below 90% and dropping. As for most people using it, why do you think M$ made it part of the operating system. Many people don't look beyond what is already there to see if anything else would be better.

As for the scrolling, I have a Logitech wireless mouse and found for some of the features of the buttons, I had to use the Logitech software to reprogram some of the buttons. Nothing drastic that affected other software, but just to make it more usable for Firefox. Also, look under tools/options/browsing and see if anything there will help.

 

I think it might be you have another tab highlighted or something. If it doesn't work try clicking on the bar at the top of the screen. The one with the minimize resize and x box. Do not actually click on those boxes just the bar they are on. Then the scroll should work.
By the way FireFox is a lot better than IE. Everyone here at work has converted, and a lot fewer spyware and adware problems and pop-ups are nearly a thing of the past.

 

firefox owns ie.

Have you checked for latest mouse drivers? How about firefox updates?

 

I find that sometimes I have to click inside the page I want to scroll before the scroll will work in firefox. Other than that I don't have many issues with it. There is that annoying all ' marks show up as ? marks on some pages. I think that's more of a matter of bad web page design since most pages worth a darn (like this site) work perfectly.

 

You might need to change a setting somewhere in either firefox or the touchpad driver (most likely) to make firefox understand the command. It's possible that it's a firefox bug where it just won't understand that input yet.

 

I had a similar issue with an older version of Opera and my laptop... Firefox forums are the best place to get an answer... prolly need to tweak a setting for your touchpad somewhere... no big deal, the hard part it finding the right fix.

FF is OK, but Opera is still the browser king.

 

make sure your mouse is "positioned" in the "frame" that you want to scroll within....I use firefox as my default browser (mainly because M$ can suck my *****)....and have no problem with it at all...I use the MS bluetooth explorer....

 

Firefox scrolls for me fine. It is my browser of choice as I believe it outperforms IE on just about everything. I love the tabbed browser.

SideNote: IE took the market share by giving away its browser when Netscape was still selling theirs. IE was inferior to Netscape in so many ways but it was free. IE did catch up and pass Netscape in features but it took years of work.

One piece of advice for FF users...dont think it is anymore secure than IE, it just has less features and users to exploit.

 

And it doesn't use ActiveX. Also Mozilla org seems to be much quicker on getting fixes for security problems out than M$. M$ only does monthly updates thru their windows update process. Also I know of 1 security problem, a spoofer, that they did not fix for 2+ years. The spoofer would go to a site that looked like the one you expected, have what you expected in the url address line, but be some totally different site.