Open Bug 1725184 Opened 4 years ago Updated 1 month ago

[EASILY FIXABLE Autoscroll] : Autoscroll is too reactive/fast/uncontrollable !

Categories

(Core :: Panning and Zooming, enhancement)

enhancement

Tracking

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UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: zineeddine.biad, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.131 Safari/537.36 Edg/92.0.902.67

Steps to reproduce:

Press mouse's central button, and move slightly up or down

Actual results:

Enables autoscroll, and starts scrolling way too fast !

Expected results:

Many possibilities:
1 - Move slightly
2 - Move according to a speed set in settings (this is not yet available)

Component: Untriaged → Panning and Zooming
Product: Firefox → Core

The speed of the autoscroll is proportional to the distance between the anchor and the current mouse position. So, you already have control over the speed, by how far you move the mouse from the anchor.

If, with that in mind, you still believe it's too fast (e.g. even a small movement of the mouse away from the anchor causes a high-speed scroll), could you please attach a screen recording to illustrate the issue / quantify the speed? Thanks!

So, you already have control over the speed, by how far you move the mouse from the anchor.

If you have coordination problems, you can slip, lose control of the speed, get a sudden headache due to the sudden fast scrolling, have trouble regaining control due to the headache, and lose your place.

Bug 1954212 is on file about adding an about:config preference to customize the autoscroll speed, which could help here.

See Also: → 1954212
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