350355 - Request user-adjustable autoscroll acceleration factor

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, enhancement)

Description

[Ken Takusagawa]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6

It would be nice if the user could adjust the sensitivity, i.e., the acceleration factor, of autoscroll.  It is currently hard-coded as a constant: "var speed = 12" in function accelerate() in /seamonkey/source/xpfe/communicator/resources/content/utilityOverlay.js  (I give the exact link as of today to LXR at the URL of the bug.)

I personally think 12 is too fast, and would be happy if the value were simply raised (higher numbers cause slower acceleration).


Reproducible: Always




bug 330069 requests a similar functionality.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Bug 321447 decreased the minimum autoscroll speed on trunk.  You can now scroll more slowly.  Is that enough to make you happy?

Comment 2

[Ken Takusagawa]

No, I still feel that the minimum autoscroll speed is too fast.

Note that this bug was reported on 2006-08-26, which is 5 months AFTER Bug 321447 was already fixed (2006-03-07), so the problematic behavior has in fact not changed.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Bug 321447 was fixed for SeaMonkey last year, but it was fixed for Firefox less than two weeks ago.  Also, it was only fixed on trunk, so you'll need to test a trunk build (e.g. a trunk nightly or the upcoming Firefox 3 Alpha 7) rather than Firefox 1.5 or Firefox 2.