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[gabore]

Hi all
Tried all the above but still no joy on horizontal scrolling Opera. FF and IE work. Using the newest synaptics driver 14.0.3.

Edited by gabore, 01 November 2010 - 02:22 PM.

[Michael Marley]

gabore, on 31 October 2010 - 01:56 PM, said:

Hi all
Tried all the above but still no joy on vertical scrolling Opera. FF and IE work. Using the newest synaptics driver 14.0.3

The newest synaptics driver is 15.1.9.0.  You can get it here: http://station-drive...rivers.com).exe  It might fix your problem.

[gabore]

Michael Marley, on 31 October 2010 - 03:23 PM, said:

The newest synaptics driver is 15.1.9.0.  You can get it here: http://station-drive...rivers.com).exe  It might fix your problem.

Thanks for providing the fresh driver, but the issue still exists. I really think it's an Opera issue, cause the horizontal scrolling works in my other browsers.  

Edited by gabore, 01 November 2010 - 02:21 PM.

[mmortal03]

gabore, on 01 November 2010 - 02:16 PM, said:

Thanks for providing the fresh driver, but the issue still exists. I really think it's an Opera issue, cause the horizontal scrolling works in my other browsers.  

I've had this problem on my laptop, but with Firefox, for at least over a year now, and while finding sn0wl's method recently was a relief, it only would work temporarily, and then it would go back to not working.  What I noticed was that if I closed Firefox, ran sn0wl's method, and then restarted Firefox, it would work again for a while, but then break again. It's great that it did something, but having to restart Firefox constantly was obviously not ideal.  However, after trying practically everything, by way of dumb luck this week, I may have come across a fix that will work for people.

For the past two days, scrolling in Firefox with my touchpad has, amazingly, started working again.  What did I do differently? Well, I did just recently install a new version of the Firefox trunk nightly, but I don't think that is it, because I do that all the time, and I don't think a new bug fix has been checked in or anything.

Instead, what I think it is is that a couple days ago, out of sheer dumb luck, I went into Mouse properties in Control Panel, clicked on the Wheel tab at the top, and then changed "The following number of lines at a time" from 3 to 1, and hit Apply.  That's it!  

Like I said, I can't confirm whether or not installing the latest Firefox trunk nightly after that may have had an impact as well, but I doubt it.

So, can anyone confirm whether this works for them or not?

Edit: False alarm.  The problem for me is having a PDF open in a background tab.  It's a reported bug in Firefox.

Edited by mmortal03, 23 November 2010 - 07:06 PM.

[gabore]

mmortal03, on 23 November 2010 - 03:15 AM, said:

I've had this problem on my laptop, but with Firefox, for at least over a year now, and while finding sn0wl's method recently was a relief, it only would work temporarily, and then it would go back to not working.  What I noticed was that if I closed Firefox, ran sn0wl's method, and then restarted Firefox, it would work again for a while, but then break again. It's great that it did something, but having to restart Firefox constantly was obviously not ideal.  However, after trying practically everything, by way of dumb luck this week, I may have come across a fix that will work for people.

For the past two days, scrolling in Firefox with my touchpad has, amazingly, started working again.  What did I do differently? Well, I did just recently install a new version of the Firefox trunk nightly, but I don't think that is it, because I do that all the time, and I don't think a new bug fix has been checked in or anything.

Instead, what I think it is is that a couple days ago, out of sheer dumb luck, I went into Mouse properties in Control Panel, clicked on the Wheel tab at the top, and then changed "The following number of lines at a time" from 3 to 1, and hit Apply.  That's it!  

Like I said, I can't confirm whether or not installing the latest Firefox trunk nightly after that may have had an impact as well, but I doubt it.

So, can anyone confirm whether this works for them or not?

Well, now I am using my Ubuntu boot where I can't find this setting (even in g-conf editor), but will try this on Windows.

[mmortal03]

gabore, on 23 November 2010 - 06:17 AM, said:

Well, now I am using my Ubuntu boot where I can't find this setting (even in g-conf editor), but will try this on Windows.

Looks like it was a false alarm.  It turns out my problem was having a  PDF open in a background tab. It's a bug in Firefox, for Adobe Reader and other add-ons like it.  Sorry I couldn't help!

[rspp]

I have looked on all the topics on scolling, but it still doesn't work! Arg
I have a Windows 7, i'm used to my mac and when i use my windows...