Enable Auto-Scroll and Smooth Scrolling by Default in Firefox

[Rich Jones]

By default, Firefox does not have Auto-Scrolling and Smooth Scrolling by default. This makes it seem like the middle click is 'broken'.

There are numerous threads on the forum about this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=478418
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=767335
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=36824
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=410876

Clearly, this is a big problem, and the first thing I have to fix after any install I do.

The fix is very simple: Enable these two options! Tada! Feels like it's supposed to. It seems like a lot of linux-heads don't notice this one because it's been broken for so long, but for anybody coming from the big W, this is totally crucial.

R

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks a lot for reporting this bug. Ordinarily, a request for a new feature (which this is) would not be considered a papercut, but in this case it sounds like a simple case of changing a few values from 'false' to 'true' in the Firefox configuration files, so I'm going to mark this as a valid papercut.

[Mar-castelluccio (mar-castelluccio)]

I think AutoScrolling should be enabled by default, but not SmoothScrolling (it isn't enabled by default neither in Windows).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mar-castelluccio (mar-castelluccio)]

Isn't this fixed upstream now?

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

Smooth scrolling was enabled by default by Firefox developers (upstream) – and I hate it.