969799 - Gesture for faster scrolling on lengthy webpages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 708765

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Carlos F]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140127194636

Steps to reproduce:

On long webpages it's very hard to scroll to another position that is far away from the current one. E.g. to the top or bottom of the page.


Actual results:

You always have to give the page new flicks.


Expected results:

It would be nice to have an additional method for faster scrolling on lengthy webpages. How about the following gesture:

First you make a short movement to the right and then (without leaving the finger from the screen you move up/down on the right edge of the screen. The screen height represents the height of the web-page. When you move the finger to the top/bottom of the screen you directly go to the bottom/top of the page.

Here is a graphic file, what I mean:
http://www.directupload.net/file/d/3527/5zfy9e2z_jpg.htm

With this additional gesture you can scroll very fast to big webpages. And for more exact adjustment after you have reached the approximate position you can still use the traditional flicking.

Comment 1

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

Dupe bug 708765? Is that the gesture we definitely want?

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

We can just make 708765 more general.

Comment 3

[Carlos F]

2-finger-scrolling is very intuitive, because it's very easy to understand that scrolling with 2 fingers is faster than scrolling with 1 finger.

But is has a big downside: you can't use it with one-hand-use (holding the phone in one hand and using the thumb to operate it).