SillyDog701

[jmusich]

This mighty mouse of mine is bouncing web pages all over like some sort of time machine going back and forth through my activities history. I know there is a setting for mice but I'm not sure how to use it. Or is there something else going on ? I've been using netscape for years and i'm trying safari out while I find out if there's a solution for this problem.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/417.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/417.8

[Antony]

Hello jmusich,

Welcome to SillyDog701.

This is a problem from Mozilla people, they put the horizontal scrolling as the default for forward/back history. They do not know that it's extremely hard to scroll perfectly straight when using a Mighty Mouse.

Please [sdt=9658]this thread[/sdt] for detail. In short, simply type [tt]about:config[/tt] in the location bar, and change
[tt]mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.numlines[/tt] to [tt]1[/tt]
[tt]mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action[/tt] to [tt]0[/tt]

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/417.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/417.8

[jmusich]

Thanks for the response ! I've read the thread. interesting ! Any idea if and when this will be corrected ?

Further questions :

1) What is the "location bar ?"
Is it the url locatiin at the top of browser ?

2) Will these settings changes lock out the mouse from scrolling at all ?

3) Do the changes only take place in browsers using mozilla ?

thanks again

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/417.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/417.8

[Antony]

1) What is the "location bar ?"
Is it the url locatiin at the top of browser ?

Yes, the place where you type URL.

2) Will these settings changes lock out the mouse from scrolling at all ?

No. it only changes the settings of horizontal scrolling in Netscape 7.2

3) Do the changes only take place in browsers using mozilla ?

Yes, and you have to check for each different Mozilla (Gecko)-based browsers (or each profile).

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/417.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/417.8

[jmusich]

Found it and will change later today ! Thanks for your time.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/417.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/417.8