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    Cannot get touch pad to scroll smoothly in Firefox

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by serpa4, Sep 12, 2007.

  1. serpa4

    serpa4 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a inspiron 1505. I have the latest touch pad driver. When I scroll in firefox, explorer is uninstalled, it goes in distinct steps and doesn't scroll smoothly. In other programs it scrolls smooth and other it doesn't. It only goes in steps with firefox. I have smooth scrolling checked in Firefox advanced properties and in the touchpad setup area. With other devices installed on past computers, it some where asked me how many lines to scroll at a time. This doesn't seem to have this function. How do I get the synaptics touch pad to smooth scroll in firefox? I use XP home.
     
    serpa4, Sep 12, 2007
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    P.S. horizontal is smooth and infinite without steps.
     
    serpa4, Sep 12, 2007
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    How do you get horizontal scrolling to work in Firefox? I have a Vostro 1400 with the latest XP drivers from dell, although its not synaptics, its Alps.
     
    napalmb, Sep 12, 2007
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    My scrolling in Firefox was terrible when I had smooth-scroll ENABLED. I disabled it and it's scrolling fine. Dunno why, and this was with a logitech external mouse, but might be the same issue for your touchpad.
     
    Samuel613, Sep 12, 2007
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    Sorry, horizontal scroll just works when turned on. Don't know why it wouldn't. I will try to disable smooth scroll.
     
    serpa4, Sep 16, 2007
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    Smooth scrolll in FF is fine. Better enabled, but it still scrolls in steps.
     
    serpa4, Sep 16, 2007
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    On mine 1400 everything scrolls in steps (MS Word, IE Explorer, FireFox) when using touchpad scrolling....
     
    vadimom, Sep 16, 2007
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    Guess this could be normal, live with it?
     
    serpa4, Sep 17, 2007
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    Mine scrolls just fine in IE, but not in Firefox. It's jerky in Firefox, and doesn't even move in jerks of equal size. I assume Firefox will eventually have an update that will fix this.
     
    chelet, Sep 17, 2007
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    Yeah, between Firefox and IE there is a big difference, maybe submit a bug with Mozilla through bugzilla, to see if they can track down the issue.
     
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    This solution solved my problem in Vista's IE7, and it may solve your problem in any browser, XP or Vista:

    Go to Control Panel>Mouse; then, click on the "Wheel" tab, and set the number of lines to scroll at a time to 1. When that number is set to 3, you get jerky scrolling on a touchpad. I hope this helps!

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    jeremiahsmith79, Jan 24, 2008
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