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firefox package

  1. Bug #228521
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 228521

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 228521] [NEW] Middle Button in Firefox, can't grab and drag page

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