Idea #4897: scrolling with the middle mouse button in Firefox

Written by jiu the 17 Mar 08 at 11:00. Category: Internet & Networking.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

Description

In windows, you can scroll by clicking and dragging the middle mouse button in the direction you want to scroll. In Ubuntu, Firefox tries to open a non-existent hyperlink and gives you an error message.

It would be nice to get the scrolling thing working!

Tags: firefox mouse scroll

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taron wrote on the 17 Mar 08 at 11:11

Well, the middle click pastes a marked string.
So if you have marked an URL and then click the middle mouse button, you will go to this URL.

arch0njw wrote on the 17 Mar 08 at 12:35

This is standard Linux behavior.

Try "Tab Mix Plus" as a plugin. You can choose to have middle-click close a tab instead of pasting text.

jmmL wrote on the 17 Mar 08 at 13:37

i found this behaviour annoying at first, but then i came across a fix for it somewhere, maybe in the forums..(?)

I can't remember it (sorry), but live in hope that a fix exists!
It involved editing a line fairly deep in the text preferences for firefox, not the GUI ones, if that makes any sense.

Sorry i couldn't be of more help!

denki wrote on the 17 Mar 08 at 17:20

I don't know if this is a gnome specific problem but on my computer (with Kubuntu) I can both scroll and close tabs with the middle mouse button and without using any plugin.
I just had to enable preferences > advanced > general > browsing > use autoscrolling.
I think that there should be something similar with gnome.

ebrahim wrote on the 17 Mar 08 at 22:29

Thanks denki for the hint! :D

Eldmannen wrote on the 28 Mar 08 at 04:08

I want this functionality too.

fhucho wrote on the 30 Mar 08 at 19:16

I anybody wants to have middle mouse button scrolling by default, vote for this idea: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5943/

Endolith wrote on the 7 May 08 at 13:45

Thanks, denki! Auto-scrolling is the answer I was looking for.

sisto wrote on the 15 May 08 at 15:35

Here's how to enable it in Firefox without any plugins:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=478418

JMiles_T wrote on the 8 Jul 08 at 04:07

Thank you Denki! One would think that feature would be active by default.

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