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Does firefox hate my powerbook?
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Nov 28, 2005, 07:08 PM
 
I've been having some very annoying issues in firefox lately. Suddenly, my mouse's left click becomes right click, (the right click remains right click), sometimes the page will scroll to the very bottom as if my wheel had a little motor in it, and moving the mouse to the corner no longer will give me expose/dashboard/the desktop. Anyone have a problem like this ever? When I quit firefox everything returns to normal.
     
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Nov 29, 2005, 12:02 AM
 
My problems with Firefox are a little different; when using the touch-pad to scroll down a page, sometimes it will go back to the previous page. Or when downloading a file I can't open a new window or tab; Firefox is frozen, have to close the download window to get going again.

Still prefere it over Safari, seems to be faster.
     
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Nov 29, 2005, 10:21 AM
 
Originally Posted by jorn
My problems with Firefox are a little different; when using the touch-pad to scroll down a page, sometimes it will go back to the previous page. Or when downloading a file I can't open a new window or tab; Firefox is frozen, have to close the download window to get going again.

Still prefere it over Safari, seems to be faster.

There's a simple fix for your problem with the scroll pad. If you go into the code for the program (there's a big list of 0/1 options) there's one to disable horizontal scrolling, which will fix the problem with the track pad. You'll have to look it up on google because I can't remember exactly how I fixed it myself. I'm not so sure about your lock up problems.
     
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Nov 29, 2005, 12:07 PM
 
I think he's referring to putting "about:config" in the address bar to see Firefox options. But what does this have to do with Powerbooks?

Steve
     
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Nov 29, 2005, 12:37 PM
 
Not a PowerBook question.

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