Firefox - Scroll Speed!!! >.<

JCBeastie · 27 May 2008 at 03:22

Ok I've only very recently been converted to Firefox from the IE camp, there's a lot I like and there's somethings I don't like...

Mainly I hate the scroll speed in Firefox and I cannot find for the life of me any option to change it. I feel like I'm wearing my mouse-wheel out! Another thing is in IE you can middle click and then move the mouse up and down to scroll and boy do I miss that.

So have I missed something, do I need a newer release or a plug-in to get better scrolling?

Please help!

Kainz · 27 May 2008 at 05:27

Go to Tools/Options/Advanced->General Tab and tick use smooth scrolling and autoscrolling. If the scrolling isn't smooth enough for you, then grab the Smoothwheel extension.

Zefan · 27 May 2008 at 05:29

JCBeastie said:
Mainly I hate the scroll speed in Firefox and I cannot find for the life of me any option to change it. I feel like I'm wearing my mouse-wheel out! Another thing is in IE you can middle click and then move the mouse up and down to scroll and boy do I miss that!

I do that all the time using Firefox... I've never had to turn it on or anything - it's always just been there from what I can remember.

MTA99 · 27 May 2008 at 12:21

JCBeastie said:
Another thing is in IE you can middle click and then move the mouse up and down to scroll and boy do I miss that.

I just flew up and down this thread in middle click mode (using FF 2.0.0.14 portable @ work) :confused:

GeForce · 27 May 2008 at 12:44

MTA99 said:
I just flew up and down this thread in middle click mode (using FF 2.0.0.14 portable @ work)

Me too.

JCBeastie · 27 May 2008 at 14:22

Kainz said:
Go to Tools/Options/Advanced->General Tab and tick use smooth scrolling and autoscrolling. If the scrolling isn't smooth enough for you, then grab the Smoothwheel extension.

Ah lovely, autoscrolling (stupid name).

Still not enough scroll on the wheel though, but thanks.

EDIT: Got the smoothwheel extension, much better now. ^^

mrochester · 27 May 2008 at 19:56

JCBeastie said:
Ah lovely, autoscrolling (stupid name).

Still not enough scroll on the wheel though, but thanks.

EDIT: Got the smoothwheel extension, much better now. ^^

The scrolling speed for me is changed within my mouse settings. I have a Logitech mouse, so I use SetPoint, and it allows me to select how many lines each scroll of the wheel moves because 1, 3 or 6 lines, or the whole page.