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Posted: May 13 2006,16:06 QUOTE
Respected and knowledgeable brethren...

I like to scroll line-at-a-time continuously using Firefox on long articles.
I use the up and down arrows for this.
In Fedora and even in DSL with Dillo there's no problem.
In DSL, with Firefox,  it seems that a key repeat or some other thing is triggered that causes the scroll to continue *after* when you let up on the arrow key.
The scrolling then often runs away with itself in annoying fashion.
Is there an adjustment say with xset or something that will overcome
this annoyance?
And, yes, I know there's a scroll bar.

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Posted: May 13 2006,20:52 QUOTE
What firefox version you useing? Mine works fine in FF 1.5.0.3. Try edit> preferences> advanced> check the box that say's "use smooth scrolling"
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Posted: May 13 2006,22:19 QUOTE
kerry

I've got 1.0.6 as in DSL 2.4RC2.
Smooth scroll doesn't fix it.
Did you get 1.5.0.3 here or from Firefox direct?

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Posted: May 13 2006,22:25 QUOTE
I got it from firefox direct. You just download it, unpack it, right click the emelfm icon choose super user, goto /usr/local ,rename the firefox there to firefox.old and copy or move the new firefox folder there. You also have to install the gtk2-0705.dsl in the mydsl browser under gtk, than right click the desktop>mydsl>update to gtk2. That should get you up to date.
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Posted: May 14 2006,02:11 QUOTE
kerry

I have firefox1.5.0.3, but....
I get a 'download or checksum error' trying to get gtk2-0705.
/mnt/hda1/mydsl is mounted, ok.

Also /usr/local seems to be /ramdisk/usr/local.

FWIW, I have 1.5.0.3 in Fedora and there I don't have the original scrolling complaint.  Perhaps it is a known characteristic of 1.0.6.

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