287919 - laptop's scrolling touchpad won't scroll within open browser pages in firefox.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 20618

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[jnanatara]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

the scrolling mouse on my laptop's touchpad doesn't function in the web page
contents, only from the scroll bar. this is limited to within the firefox
application itself and all the sites i visit. Works fine outsite of this
program. I do have the latest update on my mouse/scroll, and it does work on the
scroll bar, just not within the web page/browser page itself. It is a Synaptics
PS/2 port touchpad with latest driver. laptop is new Compaq Presario x1000cto.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open a browser page and try to use the scrolling mouse, no go
2.manually put the pointer on the scrollbar and it works. takes time.
3.

Actual Results:  
1. scroll indicator shows up on screen but no movement of mouse

Expected Results:  
mouse should have scrolled within the page itself, not only on scrollbar

THANK YOU!

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This is usually a bug in the mouse driver itself (it doesn't matter if it works
in other applications)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 20618 ***