Middle Button in Firefox, can't grab and drag page

[komputes]

Binary package hint: firefox-2

I miss a feature in firefox which is available in other operating systems. The middle mouse button does not do anything in Firefox for Ubuntu when in other operating systems you either get the 4 arrows that smoothly scrolls around the page or in other scenarios a hand cursor comes up to move page around. Why does middle button (mouse button 3 - wheel) dragging not do anything in Ubuntu.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 03:48:16AM -0000, komputes wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: firefox-2
>
> I miss a feature in firefox which is available in other operating
> systems. The middle mouse button does not do anything in Firefox for
> Ubuntu when in other operating systems you either get the 4 arrows that
> smoothly scrolls around the page or in other scenarios a hand cursor
> comes up to move page around. Why does middle button (mouse button 3 -
> wheel) dragging not do anything in Ubuntu.
>

this is an explicit setting as middle mouse can be confusing ...

 status invalid

 - Alexander

[komputes (komputes)]

"explicit setting as middle mouse can be confusing ..."

Are you saying this was done on purpose? I don't understand what is meant by "middle mouse can be confusing"? What are some workarounds to getting scroll functionality or page grab functionality?

[komputes (komputes)]

Status reverted to new.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:57:16PM -0000, komputes wrote:
> Status reverted to new.
>
> ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
> Status: Invalid => New
>

please dont bounce back status ... we will reopen if we are convinced
that we were wrong ...

 status invalid

 - Alexander

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:55:18PM -0000, komputes wrote:
> "explicit setting as middle mouse can be confusing ..."
>
> Are you saying this was done on purpose? I don't understand what is
> meant by "middle mouse can be confusing"? What are some workarounds to
> getting scroll functionality or page grab functionality?
>

go to about:config and search for middlemouse. www.ubuntuforums.org is
probably a better place to ask such questions.

 - Alexander

[komputes (komputes)]

Solution in Firefox 3
In Firefox > Preferences > Advanced > General > Browsing - enable "use autoscrolling"