310059 - scroller does not respond to labtop touch pad virtual scroller

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Sniper]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

the thing keep me using IE is that its scrollers respond to my labtop's touch
pad virtual scrollers. Sure you know what are those scroller, they enable me to
move the page up and down or right and left on some wide pages. That happen by
just using the laptop touch pad. I noticed firefox does not respond to the
labtops' touch pads' virtual scrollers in many kinds of labtops. However, the
Firefox display the smal symbol for the virtuall scrolling as IE but it doesn't
react with it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Move my finger on the virtuall scroolling area on the touch pad.
2.the scrolling symbol (a small picture for a scroller with mouse pointer on it)
appears.
3.the firefox does not respond (to move the scroller) when moving up or down.

Actual Results:  
the last step 

Expected Results:  
like the IE acting with the touch pad virtuall scrollers

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050926
Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005092604

Works for me with Alps TouchPad and the newest version of the drivers for it.
What version are you using, and it it the latest version? (Check Windows Update.)

Comment 2

[Sniper]

they fixed the problem in the last update for the touch pad driver (synaptics
pointing device v8.1.2.28 jul. 2005.

I was using the previous version.