On 12/28/2010 02:48 PM, James Mckenzie wrote:
Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Tim:
>>> Do you have a shift key stuck down? The mouse wheel can do different
>>> things with the browser, depending on the keyboard modifiers.
> Daniel B. Thurman:
>> Well, it is not a static issue, the problem is intermittent. I do get
>> page up/down but if you "flip" the wheel up or down quickly (fast
>> scroll), then the page jumps - it is very annoying.
> Is it a mouse with extra buttons on the side? Perhaps one's become
> extremely sensitive to touch.
>
If you were to call this in, the company would come back with 'this is normal
behavior' and close it out, because IT IS. I get the same thing on my Mac if I
attempt to 'quick scroll' with the trackpad. No pretty, but that is how it
works.
James McKenzie
As it turns out, somehow the mouse driver was in an unstable
state, because when I rebooted the system, the problem went
away. What was happening was that when I scrolled FF or TB
to the bottom with the thumb-wheel, and then scrolled up, one
notch - it went into a behaviour that either changed something
in another page (instead of scrolling up in the page where the
mouse focus is) or opened something else in yet another pane.
I think this is not normal behaviour, but I could be wrong.
But for now, I do not have this problem after rebooting, so I will
not pursue this issue any further, but interestingly - it only happens
with FF & TB.