Firefox Question

[Issachar]

About two weeks ago, I was having an increasingly hard time getting IE to work. It just kept hanging .. so much as to mostly not be able to use the internet sometimes. No amount of "help" at Microsoft was helping. I decided to try Firefox. It's great! Never hangs .. seemingly faster (could just be because it works) and decent to use. Importing favorites from IE was painless enough as well as getting it set up how I want.

Now .. problem: When I'm on a page on the internet and I want to select a part of it, I'm used to being able to click, drag .. and when I go to the bottom of the page, it would just scroll. Firefox isn't doing that. I get to the bottom and that's it .. no scroll.

My question is: is there a setting somewhere I have to set? Something? I can't find anything yet, though with me, it is likely I'm not seeing the obvious.

Issachar

[Guest]

Re: Firefox Question

Now .. problem: When I'm on a page on the internet and I want to select a part of it, I'm used to being able to click, drag .. and when I go to the bottom of the page, it would just scroll. Firefox isn't doing that. I get to the bottom and that's it .. no scroll.

Issachar

I do not understand what you are trying to do. What was the purpose for doing this in IE?

[Issachar]

Re: Firefox Question

Sometimes I want to select a portion of text but part of that portion is off the bottom of the screen. I find where I want to start a selection, usually to copy and paste, left click and drag the mouse down ... but when I get to the bottom of the screen, but there is more text I want that is below that, in IE, it would just automatically scroll while dragging/selecting. In Firefox .. so far .. it won't scroll, so I have to stop, go to the right and scroll the page so I can actually see where I want to end and hope the top of where I want to start, isn't off of the top of the page.

Issachar

[Issachar]

Re: Firefox Question

Ok; I found the following, here. I bolded a sentence that is true. I know, because I had to try the "drag upward" method to post this excerpt. But I'm not understanding what all it says. Also, it refers to Firefox 4 and is only posted not quite two years ago. I have ver.16.0.2.

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

Open firefox 4
Go full screen
Open a long page such as this one:- http://mail.gnome.org/archives/commi.../msg03805.html
Try to highlight a large chunk of text starting on screen and move the mouse down and try to go off the bottom of the screen (selecting text). Note that the browser doesn't scroll down. This is the bug.

Note that if you scroll the window to the bottom and drag upwards it does scroll upwards as you select.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: firefox 4.0~rc2+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 28 22:25:33 2011
FirefoxPackages:
firefox 4.0~rc2+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
flashplugin-installer N/A
adobe-flashplugin N/A
icedtea-plugin 1.1~20110320-0ubuntu1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

Issachar, not sure if there is a solution in all that ..

[Guest]

Re: Firefox Question

I use FireFox and the scroll to select works for me. I don't recall have to change any setting to allow this to work.

[Issachar]

Re: Firefox Question

Good morning Pman ..

What ver. Firefox are you using? If you could take a couple minutes, could you check/say what add-ons you may have? I don't know much about that yet (Top Right of Screen: Firefox ---> Add-ons.) Apparently, just digging around, this is a known bug and I'm wondering if you might (unknowingly?) have an add-on or something else that makes that work?

Thanks,
Issachar

[Issachar]

Re: Firefox Question

The IE I was using is ver.9. While looking around, I came across "Five reasons to not use IE9."

Issachar

[Guest]

Re: Firefox Question

if anything, firefox scrools down too quickly when you drag your mouse down past the bottom of the page

the trick is to just push his tail past the bottom of the page and it will scroll slowly..............

there is only one firefox issue,,,some website creator tools insist you use IE to imput text, there is a patch you can get to fix that...

imho firefox bookmarks works better than IE favorites

firefox also is not as vunerable to viruses as long as you give firefox its flu shots

[Guest]

Re: Firefox Question

The current version of Firefox is 17.0. Updating may solve the problem. No add-on is necessary.

I have used Firefox for years and have never had a problem to copy to the bottom of any page.

[Issachar]

Re: Firefox Question

ver.17, eh? Wow .. I just d/l Firefox. Ok .. I just looked at how to update and saw that I am at ver.17. This morning I was at 16.0.2. They're fast.

Still won't scroll though when selecting text and I get to the bottom of the screen. FWIW, I'm on a Dell, Windows 7; 64 bit ... Well maintained.

Issachar

[Guest]

Re: Firefox Question

I have Adblock Plus, DoNotTrack Plus, Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus, ForecastFox, FoxyProxy Standard, Java Console, and Menu Icons Plus.

That is it. I too am running Window 7 64-bit and running FireFox 17.0

[Guest]

Re: Firefox Question

I used to love Firefox but with the latest version it loads a container plug in for Adobe Flash and it is a RAM hog. When you scroll down a page it delays and sputters! Is this what you are seeing PB? Anyone else having this problem?

[Guest]

Re: Firefox Question

Ummm, nope.... Not seeing that.

I'm, ummm, bad.

Just checked.

On version

12.

[Guest]

Re: Firefox Question

While not a fan, I have moved away from Firefox to Chrome.

[Guest]

Re: Firefox Question

Do you have some add-ons?

Go to Help and click on "Restart with add-ons disabled".