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[1] Submitted by: avih on Saturday March 29th 2003

test ;)

[2] Submitted by: warenhaus on Saturday March 29th 2003

is it supposed to be enabled by a middle-click, like in IE? as that doesn't work for me. if yes, i guess it's due to the mouse gesture ext i use: RadialContext.
i'd be happy to be able to use both at the same time though.
(posted this in mozillazine also)

[3] Submitted by: warenhaus on Saturday March 29th 2003

sorry, guess what i meant was autoscroll, i thought the extension would implement both, smooth AND autoscroll.
smooth scrolling with the wheel works fine with your ext.

WinXP, Px nightly 20.march, TBE, RadialContext, TabScroller, Textlinks, NukeImage, Adblock,...

[4] Submitted by: avih on Monday March 31st 2003

I need your feedbacks and help, pls ;)

[5] Submitted by: jiv on Tuesday April 1st 2003

Very nice -- slightly higher CPU usage than the built-in smoothscroll, but still very acceptable. Both are much less intensive than IE's smoothscroll. Also, I find the non-linear scroll to be very pleasant.

I will very probably not use this, though, due to what is probably an unsolvable problem: without vsync, it's ... hard to describe, but 'jerky', as are all other such things. I guess since this is implemented on the outer layers of things, doing the redraws on retraces isn't very possible.

[6] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday April 1st 2003

@jiv
regarding the vsync, i understand the issue, i have no clue at all to sync to the v-retrace...
however, to lower the framerate (on really fast computers it's currently cropped at about 200fps) you can change the timer between scroll events on the last line of the function <function smoothWheelLoop(){>
(and NOT function smoothWheelHandler(e){) from 5 to 20 or so. if you set it to 40 (ms) it will be dropped at 25fps, in which case, the vsync issue won't be an issue anymore.

cheers
avih

[7] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday April 1st 2003

hopefully, in the next version, i'll add a desired framerate variable, with default as 25 fps or so. i'll also see if i can change the implementation to make it look smoother.

also, there's room for improvements in the scroll algorithm, it should be possible to make it smoother between consecutive wheel events. i'll think about it.

avih

[8] Submitted by: jiv on Tuesday April 1st 2003

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll play around a bit.

Another thought: if you ever decide to implement the in-form scrolling, it'd be nice to build on your current configurability and allow it to be disabled. The fact that it always, no matter what, scrolls the entire page (rather than whatever scrollable part you happen to be hovering over) can actually be pretty useful.

[9] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday April 1st 2003

@jiv:
note taken
thanx

[10] Submitted by: Suzy on Friday April 11th 2003

Thank you, this is just what I've been looking for. So far it is working quite well for me.

[11] Submitted by: meso on Sunday April 13th 2003

Nice work. I'm using it on 3-20 and it works well.

Also can you please make the actual xpi available for downloading. I'd like to keep a copy on my computer.

Thanks

[12] Submitted by: avih on Sunday April 13th 2003

@meso:
http://downloads.mozdev.org/smoothwheel/smoothwheel.xpi

[13] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday April 15th 2003

v0.2 test.

[14] Submitted by: SilvereX on Wednesday April 16th 2003

Just tried it on Moz1.3. Gecko's default smoothscroll performs very cool on Linux on a kernel with low-latency patch, but not too good on Windows - it just feels to slow. Smoothwheel is way better on Windows. However, I would like a capability to smoothscroll with PgUp/PgDn/Scrollbar clicking/good old keyboard arrows ;-)

[15] Submitted by: avih on Wednesday April 16th 2003

@SilvereX:
glad to hear smoothwheel is working nicely 4 u. does it work well on linux as well? (only tried phoenix on linux with smoothwheel).

i 1st wanna concentrate on bugfixes, and features only later. it should not be a problem to implement handling of scrollbar arrows and pgup/pgdn/arrows etc.

you can use ALT-Wheel to do pg-up/pg-dn smoothly. check out the configuration section.

thx 4 the feedback.
avih

[16] Submitted by: SwampFan on Wednesday April 16th 2003

Very nice extension - only the second one I've installed that I plan to keep. Great customization features as well, I've already tweaked a few and am scrolling away.

Thanks Avi!

[17] Submitted by: hao2lian on Wednesday April 16th 2003

What is non-linear scrolling and linear scrolling? i.e.
//selects either linear (=0) or various non-linear(=1/2/3) scroll profiles. default is 1.
//possible values:
// 0 : Linear
// 1 : 2nd power (non-linear)
// 2 : 3rd power (non-linear)
// 3 : cosine (non-linear)

[18] Submitted by: avih on Wednesday April 16th 2003

@hao2lian:
linear: the page scrolls at a constant speed for each wheel action.

non-linear: the page moves at a variable speed, thus making it less "harsh" (more gracefull).

if you wanna see it totally linear, you should also disable smoothTransitions. (you can choose preset 5 for a linear profile).

avih

[19] Submitted by: avih on Wednesday April 16th 2003

@SwampFan:
great, thanx.
what's the other extension?? ;)

[20] Submitted by: weo on Friday April 18th 2003

How do you install this via shell??

[21] Submitted by: avih on Friday April 18th 2003

@weo:
i don't know... i took someone's else installer, and just changed the relevany parts. parts of it i don't quite understand. why do u need shell install? if you're going to USE it.. then u must be using graphical display.. ain't it? sorry that i have no answer though.

avih

[22] Submitted by: Chee on Monday April 21st 2003

Using 0.2 under Mozilla 1.3 here with default settings. I'm finding that the scrolling "jumps" too many lines (around 6) with each click of the mousewheel. Is there a way to set SmoothWheel so that each single click of the wheel will scroll the page by only 1 or 2 lines but if I were to roll the wheel quickly the scolling would increase more than proportionately?

Thanks in advance.

[23] Submitted by: avih on Monday April 21st 2003

@chee:
that's a great idea :) i'll think about it (watch this mini forum, i might post a solution here soon)

in the meanwhile though, you could:

1. hold the shift key while scrolling. by default it will reduce the scroll steps by a factor of 10.

or

2. still keep it proportional, but use smaller steps (relative to the vieable window height): change RelativeStepFactor in the configuration section to something higher than 6.7 (let's say 10 or 15)

hope it helps..
great idea anyway

avih

[24] Submitted by: Chee on Thursday April 24th 2003

Thanks, avih. Re your 2 suggestions:

1. Holding down Shift key - tried that it's very good for fine-tuning when the bottommost line is partially obscured but for practical scrolling it's too slow.

2. Changing RelativeStepFactor makes it better but I'm still holding out for your upcoming "solution" ;-)

3. BTW, maybe I didn't RTFM clearly, but when the pointer is stopped over an inline image Smoothwheel will not work. However Smoothwheel will work if the "momentum" of a scroll action "carries" the pointer through an inline image. Is there any way to fix this? Sometimes I need to perform some actions on an image, say, save or copy it. Then when I want to scroll the page again I have to reposition the pointer outside of the image before Smoothwheel can kick in. A little annoying. :-)

Regards

Chee

[25] Submitted by: avih on Thursday April 24th 2003

->2: it will be included in the next version. it's working very nice already in my 'testlab'

->3: yup. you didn't RTFM ;) i couldn't find a method to make it ALWAYS work correctly. in the prev version it would just stay put if you were over an inline image or form's textarea. in v0.2 i made it use the default scroll if i can't handle it. the 'momentum' stuff: yup, correct. i actually gave it some thought, and consider it a 'feature' ;), i figured it's better than nothing. it only selects the target scroll object when a scroll is initialized, and NOT when the scroll is 'extended'.

"A little annoying. :-)" ... well, wanna help and fix it yourself? ;)

avih

[26] Submitted by: Chee on Friday April 25th 2003

Re: Inline Images

Yes. I too, find v0.2 a vast improvement over the previous version as far as inline images are concerned. The 'momentum', as you put it, is indeed a feature and better than nothing.

I would love to fix it myself but alas, I've not a programming bone in my body. :-(

BTW, I don't quite understand the part about "...made it use the default scroll if I can't handle it". What is the 'default scroll' we're talking about here?

Not to sound too selfish but I merely want to point out that the ability to 'focus' over an inline image and start scrolling thereafter is essential in my work (less for surfing at home). I deal with multiple images managing digital photo sites and having the scrolling broken down every few turns of the wheel is frustrating to say the least. Is there any way around this, perhaps by seeing how other similar mousescroll projects are handling this?

With Regards,

Chee

[27] Submitted by: avih on Friday April 25th 2003

@Chee:
yes, it's still NOT perfect, but it's the best i can pull out atm. the default scroll is the one that would happen if you wouldn't install smoothwheel (just put the pointer over the "Your Comment" area at the bottom of this page and scroll).

perhaps you could give me some urls of pages that this problem is severe for you. if i get these i might be able to make a specific patch for you to tackle this issue (possibly with a price of performing less efficiently for the more 'common' cases).

[28] Submitted by: Chee on Friday April 25th 2003

1. This is very strange. I just double-checked some of the supposed non-working sites which contain problem inline images and found that I had mouthed off too quickly - apologies. The problem isn't so much as inline images causing the pointer to 'die' on them - no, the 'default scroll' kicks in seamlessly as a substitute. Cool. If, however, an ad-blocker is in use (I use Privoxy) which render any inline image (eg. banner, gif, shockwave ad) into a 'dead space', *then* the mouse pointer will die on that 'dead space'. This problem is more prevalent on online magazine sites - following is an example:

http://www.straitstimes.com.sg/world/story/0,4386,185181,00.html?

The advertisement in the middle of the page is blocked by the ad-blocker and at the same time it isn't linked to anything. Mouse pointer is dead over it.

2. Another thing: as I type in this comment field, isn't the scrolling suppose to scroll 'inside' the comment field instead of the whole page?

Regards,

Chee

[29] Submitted by: avih on Friday April 25th 2003

1. i'll check the privoxy issue.
2. if the focus is inside the comment field (i.e. you click the area) then it scrolls inside. otherwise, it scrolls the whole page.

again, i know the detection procedure is not perfect, it's much better than v0.1, it's working well in the vast majority of cases. and it's the best i can do without putting days into these 2% of cases. if someone is willing to help me out here, i'll gladly incorporate the contribution into the code.

i just had another idea though. how about a modifier key to disable smoothwheel (configurable)? i.e. while you hold the ALT key (or other) and scroll, smoothwheel will be disabled. would this help?

cheers
avih

[30] Submitted by: avih on Friday April 25th 2003

@chee:
i've installed Privoxy, i see what you mean, but couldn't find an immediate solution for this issue. i suggest you either disable smoothwheel then, or just wait for a solution to come up later on, either by me or through a contribution. sorry i couldn't help any more.

avih

[31] Submitted by: Chee on Friday April 25th 2003

Hope I didn't come across as too whiney - no doubt about it, SmoothWheel v0.2 is *much* better than v0.1 and it does work wonderfully in most cases.

Re Modifier Key:

The modifier key disabler feature should be somewhat useful but Mozilla already uses uses the Ctrl, Shft and Alt keys as modifiers - would it be a problem?

Re blocked ads' 'dead space':

It would take much more than this to get me to remove SmoothWheel - it's too useful in most circumstances. :-) I'll just put it on my wish-list and hope it'll be solved one day.

Re focus of point in or out of comment field:

There's a problem on my end - even when the cursor is in the comment field (active use) any scrolling with the mousewheel will scroll the whole page and not inside the field.

Regards,

Chee

[32] Submitted by: jk on Wednesday April 30th 2003

Is there a way to easily uninstall the smoothwheel extension?

[33] Submitted by: Andrea.m on Wednesday April 30th 2003

Can you add the configuration options to about:config? I don't want to edit an obscure file (of course an advanced configuration GUI would be the best!!). Sorry something was wrong with bugzilla and couldn't enter this as a bug.

[34] Submitted by: avih on Wednesday April 30th 2003

@jk:
for now, extension can't be uninstalled unless you re-install the browser. this is not smoothwheel's limitation but mozilla/firebird/phoenix one.

if you have firebird/phoenix, you can disable it from the menu: tools->options->extensions. then select smoothwheel, and click the 'Disable extension' button.

if you have mozilla you'll have to check out the configuration instructions on this website. when you find and open the file mentioned, just change "EnableThisExtension=true;" to "EnableThisExtension=false;".

@Andrea.m:
I don't know how to do that yet (both suggestions) although they're both resonable requests. I hope i'll be able to provide these easier configuration options in one of my next versions. don't hold your breath though.... it takes much time, and i'm doing it for free. if, on the other hand, you want to help and implement it yourself, i'd appreciate it and add your contribution to the extension.

cheers
avih
check out the configuration section

[35] Submitted by: Andrea M on Wednesday April 30th 2003

I don't know either, but I checked the pie menues project (optimoz.mozdev.org) and it seems not too difficult.
Check their file piePrefsPanel.xul

[37] Submitted by: avih on Thursday May 1st 2003

@peter:
Find your friends elswhere pls!

[38] Submitted by: Alex on Friday May 2nd 2003

WoW! Very nice!, can't wait for 0.3! =)

[39] Submitted by: mbi on Saturday May 10th 2003

Works great on OS X Firebirds!

[40] Submitted by: otama on Saturday May 24th 2003

i DO really LOVE this extension

its so soft :)

congratulations!

[41] Submitted by: avih on Monday May 26th 2003

v0.3 test

[42] Submitted by: david on Wednesday May 28th 2003

nice :)

[43] Submitted by: Agagooga on Friday May 30th 2003

Is Autoscroll on the roadmap for the future?

The autoscroll project is looking for a new maintainer. It would complement the smoothwheel project perfectly!

[44] Submitted by: avih on Saturday May 31st 2003

Agagooga, the autoscroll extension is mainatned also as part of all-in-one-gestures ( )

[45] Submitted by: Bernd on Monday June 2nd 2003

Two things:
- Please fix the bugzilla (maybe this has to go to the mozdev site maintainers, but anyway)
- smoothwheel does not work together very well with the wheel rocker gestures of the latest optimoz gestures nightly build 20030602. I.e. holding down the right mouse button and scrolling normally changes tabs, this does work only sometimes when smoothwheel is enabled

[46] Submitted by: ptaczek on Monday June 2nd 2003

Maaaan this is absolutely PERFECT!!! ;D Thanx!

[47] Submitted by: avih on Wednesday June 4th 2003

@Bernd:
- what's worng with bugzilla?
- wheel rocker (or wheel navigation) issue is known. i'll prob release a minor version soon wich fix it.

thanx.

[48] Submitted by: avih on Sunday June 8th 2003

@Bernd:
pls check compatibility again with v0.31.

thanx.

[49] Submitted by: Sedination on Wednesday June 11th 2003

Oh baby, v0.31 is hella sweet! keep up the good work.

[50] Submitted by: Ethan on Friday June 27th 2003

Love the extension--it's always one of the first things I install after setting up a new Firebird installation.

I've got one question, though: when I middle-click on links that are on pages served up as application/xml+xhtml (e.g., http://www.sidesh0w.com/, http://simon.incutio.com/), the scrollwheel extension overrides my default preferences. I'd expect the link to open in a new tab, but instead the scrollwheel cursor comes up; I have to either Shift+click or right-click on the link to open it in a new tab. Is this something I can configure?

Thanks!

[51] Submitted by: avih on Monday June 30th 2003

BZZZZZZZZ.. wrong extension ;)
you probably ment autoscroll at http://autoscroll.mozdev.org

cheers
avih

[52] Submitted by: joker on Wednesday July 2nd 2003

aw so nice ;)

[53] Submitted by: Joe Smith on Tuesday July 8th 2003

Very nice, especially with while pressing shift for reading.

[54] Submitted by: Janet on Wednesday July 16th 2003

Cute :)
Janet

[55] Submitted by: Hi on Saturday July 26th 2003

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[56] Submitted by: Fox on Tuesday July 29th 2003

Hi!
Nice extension! However, it doesn't work for me with all sites, kinda strage. For example this extension works with www.codeproject.com ,but not with this and some other sites like mozdev.org. What's wrong? I'm using this extension for the first time with Firebird 0.6.1.

regards

[57] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday July 29th 2003

@Fox:
yes. i also noticed this issue with mozilla-firebird 0.61 today. i hope to dig into the issue asap. no promisses though.

thanx.
avih

[58] Submitted by: Sah on Wednesday July 30th 2003

@avih
Same on my System with Firebird 0.6.1!
No problems with Firebird 0.6 afair.

[59] Submitted by: Sah on Wednesday July 30th 2003

BTW:
SmoothWheel is GREAT!
THX for this excellent piece of software!

[60] Submitted by: avih on Wednesday July 30th 2003

@Sah: :D thx

about the MF0.61 issue, it MIGHT be related to this ( http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214310 ) scrollwheel bug. i'm going to wait a bit to see if a fix is found on firebird itself. be patient. i'm also using this build now. it's mostely working, but on some pages (most notably, the default homepage) it doesn't.

i now think it's a firebird issue, but i'm looiking after it anyway ;)

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[64] Submitted by: Vladislav Duma on Wednesday August 13th 2003

Hello!

Indeed very nice extension, thanks developer for great job done. It's a pity that the code isn't included in official Mozilla distribution.

Works very nice on CRT screens, but on LCD screens (at least one I work with) the text of webpage appears to tremble while scrolling slowly (OK if one scrolls fast), even if I set the refresh rate to the refresh rate of the screen.

Perhaps the problem is with relatively slow screen updating of LCD screens?

Can the problem be solved with tweaking configuration? If so, could someone please advise me good (as for LCD screen) values for configuration parameters?

[65] Submitted by: Gearhead on Friday August 29th 2003

Thanks for this - I love it! It seems to work well with Mozilla 1.5b.

I would like to be able to scroll in menus. I suspect this is an entirely different issue, however.

[66] Submitted by: Alex on Sunday August 31st 2003

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[67] Submitted by: John on Monday September 1st 2003

Awesome !!! I guess I won't have to complain about the smoothness of the sroll in Mozilla anymore. Great work.

John,

[68] Submitted by: Berberecho on Friday September 5th 2003

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[74] Submitted by: Hansi on Tuesday September 9th 2003

free the mousewheel

[75] Submitted by: Urbenet on Sunday September 14th 2003

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[76] Submitted by: Dominik Geisler on Monday September 15th 2003

Just asking: Will there ever be a smoothwheel version wich can install into the profile? Or can I do that myself? (I tried some editing of the chrome files, but that resulted in FB crashing on start).

omc__pusscat@hotmail.com

[77] Submitted by: avih on Monday September 15th 2003

@ Dominik Geisler:
i have little time to add this feature, but if you wanna work on it (AND test it), i'll gladly add your contrib to the code. cheers.

avih.

[78] Submitted by: Ogged on Monday September 15th 2003

Wonderful! I like the way it works, but I'm curious about configuring it and don't see how. I'm using it with Firebird 1.5b and "Options" is greyed out under Extensions.

[79] Submitted by: Ogged on Monday September 15th 2003

Argh! Found it. I'm sorry for the dumb question.

[80] Submitted by: Dominik Geisler on Monday September 15th 2003

avih: I have absolutely no expirience in writing extensions. I have learnt some c++ and are somewhat experienced in html though, don't know if that helps.

[81] Submitted by: avih on Monday September 29th 2003

test

[82] Submitted by: avih on Sunday October 19th 2003

yay! user notes section is back :) thx to clav.

[83] Submitted by: Ben Darlow on Thursday October 23rd 2003

SmoothWheel for some reason breaks the new A List Apart (http://www.alistapart.com/) website - you can't scroll the page with the mousewheel *at all*. I'm disecting the site to try and find out what particular part of the design causes this, but haven't found out yet.

[84] Submitted by: avih on Thursday October 23rd 2003

thx Ben. checking that out as well.

cheers
avih

[85] Submitted by: Alex on Thursday October 30th 2003

I've encountered the same problem as Ben Darlow. Hopefully, this will be fixed soon. (ALA rocks!)

[86] Submitted by: avih on Friday October 31st 2003

Ben, Alex:
(re: www.alistapart.com issue)

i played with the page's css a bit, and for some strange reason, when i remove the style of the top border (solid) it behaves correctly. when i put back the style (either via border-top, as it is now, or via border-style: solid;) it won't scroll. i have no clue why that happens. but a quick and dirty hack for now would be to remove the 'solid' from the border-top definition at the css.

sorry i couldn't do better.

cheers
avih

[87] Submitted by: avih on Friday October 31st 2003

clarification: the border-top issue i was talking about earlier was that of the 'body' element at the css file.

avih

[88] Submitted by: Bad_Karma on Wednesday November 5th 2003

Win 98Using this on Win 98 I can only figure out how to get the wheel to move the page both up and down if I configure it via a modifier key. If I move the wheel down I sroll down and if I move the wheel up I scroll down too. I can configure it so I get it to roll in the opposite direction if I press control - is there something obvious I'm missing?

[89] Submitted by: Paradais on Sunday November 9th 2003

Please some1 can helpme. I use mozillafirebird under linux.The scroll dont work, when i use the scroll it selec the text on the mouse and the scroll is freeze. :( some tip plz.

[90] Submitted by: avih on Sunday November 9th 2003

@Bad_Karma, Paradais:

pls try to enable compatibility mode ( http://smoothwheel.mozdev.org/installation.html#compatibility . pls let me know it it helped...

avih

[91] Submitted by: raf on Wednesday November 19th 2003

It looks like smoothwheel works in documents having a DOCTYPE declaration, but not in documents without one. Is anyone else seeing that? Using Debian Moz. package 1.5-3 and SmoothWheel 0.32. Sorry if I'm missing something.

[92] Submitted by: avih on Thursday November 20th 2003

@raf: i'll look into that. thx for the info. if you do get to any more conclusions, pls don't hesitate to post them here.

thx.
avih.

[93] Submitted by: raf on Thursday November 20th 2003

In reference to comment 91, the document must have a DOCTYPE including a URI for the DTD. E.g., smoothwheel does not work for me with CNN.com, whose DOCTYPE is:

Changing this to:

enables smoothwheel.

[94] Submitted by: raf on Thursday November 20th 2003

sorry about comment 93, guess this thing doesn't like DOCTYPE declarations in comments.. anyway, DOCTYPE declarations need to have DTD URIs.

[95] Submitted by: avih on Thursday November 20th 2003

@raf
i tried cnn.com, and it worked for me (XP-Pro, moz1.5rc and moz-fb - 2003-09-25).

could you pls try to enable compatibility mode (see post #90), and let me know if it's working? (i can't put my hand on a working debian for the moment).

thx again
avih

[96] Submitted by: raf on Friday November 21st 2003

Hmm... guess I should have tried that before. Now on cnn.com, smoothwheel works everywhere except when the mouse cursor is over an advertiser's image. CNN puts these images in IFRAMEs though, so no surprise.

Interestingly, *without* compatability mode, I *was* able to scroll the main cnn.com window when the mouse was over these same images.

[97] Submitted by: ToyKeeper on Thursday November 27th 2003

I was experiencing the "doesn't smoothscroll on some pages" problem in debian with firebird 0.7. I tried compatibility mode, and this seems to fix the problem.

Also, I noticed that the pages where smoothwheel didn't work were only broken when the topmost or leftmost edge of the page were showing. If I could hscroll, and went slightly to the right, smoothwheel would work.

[98] Submitted by: Steve Sipe on Sunday December 7th 2003

I am using a Kensington Pocketpro with my laptop & have lots of trouble with wheel scrolling. It scrolls backwards if the wheel is turned before the previous scroll lands. I will try to adjust the configuration, I will report back if I find a combination that behaves normally.

[99] Submitted by: avih on Monday December 8th 2003

@ Steve Sipe: thanks.

avih.

[100] Submitted by: Dunderklumpen on Wednesday December 24th 2003

Just discovered some problems with Mozilla. I loose the scroll completely in PHpBB forums and on some homepages with builds after the 21:th. Smoothwheel works OK on builds before that- but not on any of the available builds after that (tested with 22 and 23). I have not yet tested with Firebird since I am on a build from the 18:th on that one. I have tested this with all the available version of smoothwheel and end up with the same result - no scroll.

[101] Submitted by: Dunderklumpen on Wednesday December 24th 2003

Just tested the extension with the pre 0.8 build of Firebird and it does work there. Well, this just might be a problem with my system but it gives me every impression of being bugrelated. Just letting you know.

[102] Submitted by: avih on Wednesday December 24th 2003

@ Dunderklumpen:
thx for the info. unfortunately, the nightlies are changing, and it causes smoothwheel, AllInOne gestures and more, to function inappropriately. it's a known issue, and i already have a new version that should work better. but it's like chasing your own tail. therefore, i try to make it work with stable versions. i don't mind if it's working on nightlies as well, but i can't modify the code every few days. of course, if you can come up with a general solution that will work regardless of the version date, i'll be glad to incorporate it.

untill then though, my highest priority is to make it work with stable releases.

thx for your information anyway.
cheers
avih

[103] Submitted by: Dunderklumpen on Thursday December 25th 2003

I fully understand that and I am getting to the point where I will only use releases myself. There are just to many issues, bugs and strange stuff happening to the nightlies right now. Just tested with the latest build (25:th) and smoothwheel does not work in that version. And as far as any other solution than getting the extension to work with release-versions - no. I think your way is the best route to go. Thanks for a "must-have-extension"!

[104] Submitted by: avih on Thursday December 25th 2003

@ Dunderklumpe
:) thx 4 the understanding.

[105] Submitted by: mqwtm on Monday December 29th 2003

I'd like to echo SilvereX's comment - http://smoothwheel.mozdev.org/index.html#14 - "I would like a capability to smoothscroll with PgUp/PgDn/Scrollbar clicking/good old keyboard arrows"

Also, installing into the profile folder would probably reduce mozdev's traffic quite a bit ;)

[106] Submitted by: jland on Wednesday January 14th 2004

I just want to try disabling the SmoothWheel extension, but I have Moz 1.5 (so no access to Options | Extensions) and can't find any lines for smooth scrolling in about:Config. What am I looking for? Tnx.

[107] Submitted by: avih on Wednesday January 14th 2004

@jland:
please take a look at the configuration section.

avih.

[108] Submitted by: Alex H. on Wednesday January 21st 2004

Any plans of updating this extension to work with the new 0.8.0+ builds of Firebird? It's the only feature that keeps me from upgrading from 0.7 ;)

And I'd also suggest that future versions of SmoothWheel be installed in the profile directory. It's better for everyone, you know :D

[109] Submitted by: ghuul on Friday January 23rd 2004

Could someone test smoothwheel on http://www.zive.cz ? It doesnt work for me on this pages (moz1.5&1.6 all with default setup). I think it was only one site where I was not able to use this nice extension.

[110] Submitted by: avih on Saturday January 24th 2004

http://www.zive.cz is confirmed not to work on v0.32.

But it's working well for me with a fixed version i'm currently evaluating. as the news says (top right of this page), i will release a fix soon.

I've also added an item to the tips section: "when it's not working, try placing the mouse pointer over the scrollbar".

cheers,
avih

[111] Submitted by: ghuul on Saturday January 24th 2004

Great. I'm lookinkg forward to a new version.

[112] Submitted by: Dunderklumpen on Sunday January 25th 2004

Any information on when smoothwheel will work with trunk-builds?

[113] Submitted by: avih on Sunday January 25th 2004

@Dunderklumpen:
VERY soon, thank you.

avih

[114] Submitted by: Rick on Monday January 26th 2004

Great to here that , btw the 14-01-04 trunk build still works with smoothwheel so the changes/fixes after that build broke it.

[115] Submitted by: ozphactor on Monday January 26th 2004

Errr... having trouble running Smoothwheel on Firebird 0.7 on Linux (Fedora).

Basically, it doesn't work. At all. Dunno what's up...

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

[116] Submitted by: ozphactor on Monday January 26th 2004

Never mind, it seems like SmoothWheel is kinda working now. It works on pages with a doctype, but not on pages without.

Funny, because on Windows, it works on all pages...

[117] Submitted by: ozphactor on Tuesday January 27th 2004

Heh, I really ought to start reading documentation. Turning on compatibility mode fixed it right up :)

[118] Submitted by: Rick on Friday January 30th 2004

Thx for the v 0.33 i am scrolling great again(latest nightly 30-1-04) :D

[119] Submitted by: avih on Friday January 30th 2004

@Rick:
;)

[120] Submitted by: laszlo on Friday January 30th 2004

Thanks for updating. Glad to be back in the nightly biz.

[121] Submitted by: Quark on Friday January 30th 2004

Unfortunately, it seems that anything but the default settings (changed through the smoothwheel.js file) gives a popup "Alert: handle(normal)" or something like that EVERY time you scroll.

[122] Submitted by: Murphyrulez on Saturday January 31st 2004

I am getting the popup Alert: handeled(normal) every time the scroll wheel clicks.

Sorta defeats the purpose.. :(

[123] Submitted by: avih on Saturday January 31st 2004

OOPS: 'handled(normal)' alert on settings other than the defaults. my mistake.

pls scroll to line 543 (of smoothwheel.js) or search for this:
alert("handled(normal)");
and comment it out like this:
//alert("handled(normal)");

i'll release a fixed version soon.
sorry.

avih

[124] Submitted by: Rick on Tuesday February 3rd 2004

Found one page where smoothwheel is not working ok, it's the only page but mayb it happends to more website's.
Not asking for a fix though(using it one time for a 8 port switch) but if it is a bug in the extension it could be nice to know :)

Website(dutch):
http://www.hardwareconcurrent.nl/

[125] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday February 3rd 2004

@Rick:
working for me : http://www.hardwareconcurrent.nl/
(MFB/2004-01-20, SWv0.33.1)

i'll gladly accept more reports on non-working sites (or another test case for this specific page)

thx
avih

[126] Submitted by: Rick on Tuesday February 3rd 2004

Hmm tried another firebird build and now it is scrolling fine.
With the 02-02-04 aebrahim build it was not working ok:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=49220&start=0

But with another build it was working fine:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=49424

So most have been a buggy trunk build ;)

[127] Submitted by: dualcells on Saturday February 7th 2004

I recently downloaded the zipped version of Firebird 0.7

installed smoothwheel after adding the registry keys,

no problems, works great

[128] Submitted by: manolo on Wednesday February 11th 2004

smooth ...
i bet the notepad.exe will have this in the future.
(or what's that ie smoothscroll?.. )

const sw_PresetSettings=4;

[129] Submitted by: avih on Friday February 27th 2004

test

[130] Submitted by: alank on Thursday March 4th 2004

I installed smoothwheel with Firefox v0.8 on Debian unstable. As root, it works well. Unfortunately, firefox doesn't start for normal users after it has been installed. I tried cleaning it out (no uninstall option is available that I could see?), with no luck. Had to apt-get remove, then apt-get install to get things back to normal. For now, I'll stick with "general.smoothscroll true".
Alan

[131] Submitted by: avih on Thursday March 4th 2004

alank, have u followed the linux installation instructions on the tips section at the top-rigth of this page?

[132] Submitted by: alank on Friday March 5th 2004

avih - didn't see the instructions at the right before, but I'll install it again and give it a go! Thanks very much for the pointer.

[133] Submitted by: Petey on Sunday March 7th 2004

The Alt key modifier for scrolling quickly does not work in Thunderbird .5

[134] Submitted by: avih on Sunday March 7th 2004

@Petey: yup, i know. i don't know how to change that. can u invoke 'about:config' in thunderbird?? then it SHOULD be easy.. (mousewheel.withaltkey.action=0)

[135] Submitted by: Ret on Tuesday March 16th 2004

Is it possible to have the standard behaviour of Windows wheelmouse? I mean having the possibility to stop smoothscrolling when the wheel is turned (Now, you have to middleclick to stop it).

[136] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday March 16th 2004

Ret, you're talking about another feature which is called autoscroll. try to look for All-In-One gestures extension, it has what u need.

avih.

[137] Submitted by: Ret on Wednesday March 17th 2004

Thanks avih!
Although autoscroll is suppossed to be working in Firefox I installed the all-in-one extension you recommended. It works as I want!
Now Scrolling is stopped whenever I turn the wheel!
Thanks again

[138] Submitted by: idom on Thursday March 18th 2004

First of all, thanks, it's a really great extension.

There is a bug though. I have both Adblock and Smoothwheel installed and the Smoothwheel doesn't "grip" the page whenever you stand over a removed frame. In other words, if I stand over a location that used to contain an advertisement frame and Adblock removed it, Smoothwheel doesn't scroll (there was no problem scrolling in these locations before I installed smoothwheel). You can try for example http://www.haaretz.co.il which has a lot of advertisments on the right side.

[139] Submitted by: avih on Thursday March 18th 2004

>First of all, thanks, it's a really great extension.

thx.

now, regarding this bug. 1st thing, u may try compatibility mode (check out the configuration section).

but generally speaking, the detection code is not perfect and is always a work in progress (usually maintained by marc, authou of AIO extension, and which i occasionally 'leech'). add the fact the (unfortunately) the detection code might sometimes break with nightly builds, and the result is that, yes, sometimes it doesn't work.

nevertheless, thx for the bug report. if i'll have time (unlikely though) i might have a look at it. even better, if YOU have the time, i'll gladly accept a fix for this specific issue.

thx anyway,
avih

[140] Submitted by: Joseph on Tuesday March 23rd 2004

How do I configure this plug-in? The Options button in the extensions pref in Firefox is disabled.

[141] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday March 23rd 2004

Joseph, you scroll to the top of this page, and click the 'configuration' link.

[142] Submitted by: Kobi on Wednesday March 24th 2004

Avi, thanks for this extension which works very well for me out of the box on a rather slow PC (450 MHz). I don't see any problem on screen areas where ads were removed by adblock (I tested the same link as idom).

[143] Submitted by: avih on Thursday March 25th 2004

@Kobi, that's good. the thing is that nightly version may behave a bit differently. my objective is to make it work with official stable releases. i'll be glad if it's working on others (and it usually does), but i can't test the app with every nightly/optimized build. so the fact that it's working for you doesn't mean that it's also working for idom.

thx for your repport and support though.
avih

[144] Submitted by: Jordan on Tuesday March 30th 2004

I absolutely cannot get this to work. I've tried everything. I'm using a Dell with a mousepad, and I have edge-scrolling turned on (so that the edges of the mousepad act as the scrolling wheel). I NEED my edge scrolling! Browsing is SUCH a pain w/o it! HELP!

[145] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday March 30th 2004

@Jordan: :( i don't have this kind of computer/mousepad so i cannot comment. i don't think the mousepad driver actually generates mouse wheel events, and with no mouse wheel events, smoothwheel won't function.

this seems to me a a general mozilla issue with mousepads, but i don't know much about them. sorry mate.

avih

[146] Submitted by: avih on Thursday April 22nd 2004

test

[147] Submitted by: Sergio on Friday April 23rd 2004

Hi there!

alank (2004-03-04) said:

I installed smoothwheel with Firefox v0.8 on Debian unstable. As root, it works well. Unfortunately, firefox doesn't start for normal users after it has been installed. ...

avih (2004-03-04) answered:

alank, have u followed the linux installation instructions on the tips section at the top-rigth of this page?

and I say:

I have followed instructions, but Firefox doesn't start :-( ...

[148] Submitted by: Sergio on Saturday April 24th 2004

Hi!

Sergio again :-). Finally I managed to make it work with a non-root user. Instead of doing permissions 644 I had to do them 655, and it works perfect. I have Debian Sarge + firefox 0.8. Thanks for the extension ...

Sergio

[149] Submitted by: avih on Saturday April 24th 2004

Sergio, you might want to try the unsupported 0.4p. it will allow you to select profile installation. this way any user should be able to install without using any root privileges. i didn't try it though, so any feedback will be appreciated.

avih

[150] Submitted by: Jeff on Sunday April 25th 2004

i know u haven't seen new posts for almost a year.. but just wanted to let u know i like it it. using firefox 0.8 right now. nice to be able to control how much scolling i want. good job!! keep it up.. looking foward to updates in the future

[151] Submitted by: Jeff on Sunday April 25th 2004

oops.. was reading the wrong date... hehe

[152] Submitted by: Mike on Sunday May 9th 2004

Great Extension! I just wish that arrow keys/pgUp/pgDn would work with it...

[153] Submitted by: Rick on Friday May 14th 2004

Mayb found a bug:

http://www.gamer.nl/nieuws/22054

Scrolls not constant, stops sometimes then continues.
Possible because of the banners, don't use adblock and only have smoothwheel and Tab browser extenions installed:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 Firefox/0.8.0+ (Lohvarn)

Pc specs: athlon xp 3200 with geforce 4 ti and 512 mb ram(so it's not my pc ;) )
If smoothwheel is disabled scrolling works ok, tested it with the latests smoothwheel.

Thanks in advance,

Rick

[154] Submitted by: avih on Sunday May 16th 2004

rick, i can't reproduce the bug. maybe you can try the same page on another computer and let me know the results? it's working well for me on that page...

[155] Submitted by: Kobi Haron on Thursday May 27th 2004

I have installed smoothwheel 0.4 on Thunderbird 0.6 - doesn't appear to work as I have jumpy scrolling.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[156] Submitted by: avih on Friday May 28th 2004

@Kobi Haron:
i'm using sw v0.4[b]p[/b].xpi on thunderbird 0.6. pls give it a try. u can get it form the installaion page..

avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040414 Firefox/0.8.0+ (MozJF/SVG)

[157] Submitted by: Picasso on Sunday May 30th 2004

I tried to install in Mac OS Jaguar and Firefox unexpected quits during download or installation. I tried at least twice w/ same result.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[158] Submitted by: Greg on Friday June 4th 2004

I installed smoothwheel as root for firefox on my GNU/linux debian system but now I can't launch firefox as ordinary user.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040413 Debian/1.6-5

[159] Submitted by: avih on Saturday June 5th 2004

Greg, have u read this page at all? tried to search the word 'linux' on this page?

annoyed.
avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040414 Firefox/0.8.0+ (MozJF/SVG)

[160] Submitted by: mpteach on Sunday June 6th 2004

Unfortunatley the tab scroller extention (right click and scroll) doesn work with smoothwheel enabled.

Overall im am seriously impressed with smoothwheel, i think this will probably be an option in future firefox builds, but for now this extention rocks. My refresh rate is the only thing holding me back.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[161] Submitted by: avih on Sunday June 6th 2004

@mpteach:
u can try all-in-one-gestures. it has tab scroller, and works perfectly with smoothwheel.

cheers
avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040414 Firefox/0.8.0+ (MozJF/SVG)

[162] Submitted by: Pussycat on Tuesday June 8th 2004

I have difficulties with 0.4. It fails to scroll on numerous sites, for example on:

The other builds do work perfectly, but I want to be able to install to profile :(

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040602 Firefox/0.8.0+

[163] Submitted by: Peter on Wednesday June 9th 2004

I installed this and tried it out. It really is very smooth. One thing that is driving me nuts. I use IE all the time because it has creamy smooth autoscroll which I use constantly.
For Mozilla I can use Autoscroll which works, but is jerky and flickery and very unfriendly to look at. It would be delightful if Autoscroll could be patched to use Smoothwheel's routines for the scrolling.
Right now with Mozilla unlike IE, I can't have both.
I see a need out there. Is it possible for you to add this functionality into your extension?

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

[164] Submitted by: warpcafe on Thursday June 10th 2004

Hi!
Just wanted to let you know, that SmoothWheel also works great and flawlessly within the os/2-port of Mozilla that was made by IBM (the so-called "IBM Web Browser") version 2.02... which is based on the 1.4 version of Mozilla. When I'm back at the office, I'll ket you know if it works with newer ports (1.6 and up) for OS/2 eCS as well. Thanks for that great piece of code! ;)

Thomas

Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; de-DE; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030616

[165] Submitted by: avih on Thursday June 10th 2004

@Peter:
All-In-One-gestures has another implementation of autoscroll (similar to mozilla internal implementation). i'll ask Marc (AIO author) him if he can increase the framerate which should make his autoscroll much smoother.

@warpcafe:
that's nice, i wasn't thinking of OS/2 ;) even when i was working for IBM (some LONG time ago), i was not working on OS/2 machines ;)

thx for the info.
avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040405 Firefox/0.8.0+ (BlueFyre)

[166] Submitted by: chapas on Friday June 11th 2004

avih: SmoothWheel has always rocked. Now, Firefox 0.9 release date is approaching, and with the release, a new Extension Manager with new API. I read the multi-user tip for Linux and it always breaks my Firefox. I don't know if this can be fixed, but if it's possible, amen. What I'm asking for is a repackaged version of SmoothWheel with the new API support and the Linux "bug" fixed. SmoothWheel is not just one more extension on the list. I _CAN'T_ use Firefox without it. So I beg you, please, please, please, release a new version for Fx 0.9.

A SmoothWheel addict

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8.0+

[167] Submitted by: avih on Friday June 11th 2004

@chapas:
thx. version 0.4p (from the install page) install to any user on linux, even on knoppix and alike.

regarding the 0.9, it's on my todo. although i'm kinda put off by the way the theme issue was handles. it will be released eventually though.

avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040414 Firefox/0.8.0+ (MozJF/SVG)

[168] Submitted by: chapas on Friday June 11th 2004

avih: I tried the 0.4p version with Fx 0.9rc1. I installed Firefox in /home/chapas/firefox (chapas is my user) and both profile and directory ways fail with error -215 (no permission). Installing as root breaks Fx, and it won't boot. /me cries ='(

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8.0+

[169] Submitted by: avih on Friday June 11th 2004

chapas, pls contact me by email.
avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040414 Firefox/0.8.0+ (MozJF/SVG)

[170] Submitted by: ben on Wednesday June 16th 2004

i NEED smoothwheel for Firefox .9! Please! Help!!! I can't stand using firefox without it!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8

[171] Submitted by: Rick on Wednesday June 16th 2004

Any chance of a firefox 0.9 smoothwheel update this week?
Because it is a £X"?'& without the smooth scrolling, it feels like scrolling on a rock :P

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

[172] Submitted by: avih on Thursday June 17th 2004

smoothwheel WILL be available for FX 0.9. i don't know when, MAYBE this weekend, since i'm quite busy. it's on my todo though. sorry for the delay.

avih.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040405 Firefox/0.8.0+ (BlueFyre)

[173] Submitted by: Vic on Friday June 18th 2004

Smooth Wheel doesn't work with multi-user accounts in Mac OS X. Installing Smooth Wheel on Mozilla or Firefox works in one user account. But if you log into another user account and try to launch Mozilla or Firefox, the browser will either hang or crash. Removing Smooth Wheel fixes the problem

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

[174] Submitted by: DeltaDrone on Thursday June 24th 2004

for some reason, your extension along with several others (but not all) does not show up under the listed extensions, although it clearly has been installed. consequently i cant uninstal it. Wheel scrolling is a little better than standard firefox smooth scrolling but middle mouse button and drag scrolling is not as good as the built in smooth scrolling in my view. perhaps (first problem asside), you could allow the 2 different types of scrolling to be seperatly selected in options.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8

[175] Submitted by: avih on Thursday June 24th 2004

@DeltaDrone:
1. SmoothWheel has nothing to do with middle mouse button and drag. u're experiencing the default mozilla one (it's called auto scroll), or the one from all-in-one-gestures extension (if u installed it)

2. it doesn't show in FF v0.9 since you're using the old smoothwheel which was NOT designed for firefox 0.9. a new version will be out soon.

avih.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040414 Firefox/0.8.0+ (MozJF/SVG)

[176] Submitted by: jasone on Tuesday June 29th 2004

"...a new version will be out soon."

Thanks for all your work.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[177] Submitted by: Justin on Wednesday June 30th 2004

Awesome. To tell you the truth, I can't even use 0.9 because I love Smoothwheel SO MUCH. I can't wait.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040210 Firefox/0.6 StumbleUpon/1.66

[178] Submitted by: Rawr on Wednesday June 30th 2004

Dude, you need to get this sorted quick! It's the only extension homepage I'm checking on a daily basis.

What...have...you..made...me...done...nooooooo. :)

Cheers.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

[179] Submitted by: Egosphere on Thursday July 1st 2004

Can't wait untill this is updated... I'm kinda in the same position as Rawr. :P Eek.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

[180] Submitted by: PsychoD on Friday July 2nd 2004

Me too - I'm won't touch Firefox 0.9 until Smoothwheel is ready ;)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[181] Submitted by: Martin on Saturday July 3rd 2004

Please! I would use every alpha or beta running on Firefox v0.9 on the Mac. I love Smoothwheel and if it is available soon, i have to switch back to 0.8.

I hope your "soon" will really be soon. Thanx for your great work (why isn't this standard in Firefox?) and keep it up.

Martin

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040628 Firefox/0.9.1

[182] Submitted by: avih on Saturday July 3rd 2004

new version is up. Mac users comments are welcome (along with others of course).

sorry for the long delay.

avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040414 Firefox/0.8.0+ (MozJF/SVG)

[183] Submitted by: Constantine on Sunday July 4th 2004

Thanks a lot, Avih!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[184] Submitted by: troy on Sunday July 4th 2004

Is it possible to configure v0.41?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[185] Submitted by: avih on Sunday July 4th 2004

@troy:
It's a bit more complex to configure v0.41:
1. open your /extensions/{5F590AA2-1221-4113-A6F4-A4BB62414FAC}/chrome folder

2. unzip smoothwheel.jar
3. edit smoothwheel.js as before
4. rezip the directory and name it smoothwheel.jar (make sure it keeps the same irectory structure as the original smoothwheel.jar file)

5. run the application again.

i hope to release a properly configurable version soon (with an options panel)

avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[186] Submitted by: Rawr on Sunday July 4th 2004

Thanks avih! FYI, to make life easier when editing FF jar files, download WinRAR.

It opens up the jar file like a normal directory and you can add/overwrite at will.

Remember to close FF before you save any changes to the jar file, otherwise nasty things will happen :)

Cheers!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

[187] Submitted by: Jeff on Sunday July 4th 2004

Hello, the extention works here on OS X 10.3.4 with all patches. FF: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040628 Firefox/0.9.1. For some reason it has disabled/broken horizontal scrolling (mousewheel.horizscroll.*) with my wireless Intellimouse 2.0. It worked before, and not now. I love the extention so much (it literally makes FF usable for me) that I don't care but felt it worth noting. If you need more details you can contact me @ wanderingstar - at - punkass.com. Thanks for all your hard work.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040628 Firefox/0.9.1

[188] Submitted by: Martin on Sunday July 4th 2004

Thank you very much! Smoothwheel 0.41 works perfectly on the Mac with 10.4.3 and Firefox 0.91. Now it's a charme again to surf the web with Firefox. Really great.

Martin

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040628 Firefox/0.9.1

[189] Submitted by: avih on Sunday July 4th 2004

thank you all for your comments :) much appreciated.

@Jeff: hmmm... i never used a mouse with hiriz scroll before, pls let me check it out 1st, and if i can't 'get it', then i might use your email for 'interactive' help. thx.

avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[190] Submitted by: jon on Monday July 5th 2004

Maybe you should also make the extention smooth scrolling along the page with the down and up keys. The builtin smooth scroll feature does, but I'd rather only use one or the other, and yours is better.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[191] Submitted by: Rick on Monday July 5th 2004

0.4.1 runs great over here on Firefox 0.9.1:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

Thanks for this great update :D

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[192] Submitted by: Gilbert on Tue, 6 Jul 2004 20:37:09 -0400

Thank you! I've got my 0.9 back to what it should be.

I don't understand why this extension would not be the default smooth wheel in Firefox... it is so much better.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.8

[193] Submitted by: ktml on Tue, 6 Jul 2004 21:16:16 -0400

you layyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
It's configurable! All i needed to do is unzip the smoothwheel.js from jar file, changed the settings, and put it back in!
Good to see myself using smoothwheel again... feel like home
Thanks for the update ;)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040629 Firefox/0.9.1

[194] Submitted by: Stv on Thu, 8 Jul 2004 07:20:35 -0400

Fantastic marvelous thanks so much, I didn't realise how much I liked smooth scroll untill I had to do without.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

[195] Submitted by: Capt Commando on Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:08:32 -0400

Greatly appreciate the update to work with FF 0.9 !!!
Mozilla Firefox is just not the same without SmoothWheel.

Any chance Smoothwheel will be added to ? I think a lot of new users are missing out on this wonderful extension.

I hope future version include some sort of GUI for easy tweaking. The default setting work great for most system. However, some adjustment are needed for old and slow computers.

Thank you once again for your work. :)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

[196] Submitted by: Capt Commando on Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:11:09 -0400

heh, this form seem to remove the http.

Any chance Smoothwheel will be added to update.mozilla.org?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

[197] Submitted by: Jlbrightbill on Fri, 9 Jul 2004 18:42:32 -0400

After I installed this plugin, I couldn't access my preferences anymore. I also tried uninstalling it via this ( and it says it's removed, but when I look in my extension list, it's still there. I'd really like to be able to access my prefs, what do I do? I installed it in my profile directory.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

[198] Submitted by: Jlbrightbill on Fri, 9 Jul 2004 19:29:18 -0400

I also tried intalling it onto the non-profile directory, but I still can't get into my prefs.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

[199] Submitted by: avih on Fri, 9 Jul 2004 22:00:28 -0400

@Jlbrightbill:
that's very strange. i tried it on the exact same mozilla 1.7 as u did, tried both profile and application, and both worked ok.

also, for mozilla you can use 0.4 or 0.4p. 0.41 only change is that it ALSO installs on new firefox/thunderbird.

i suggest a clean profile then.
avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040414 Firefox/0.8.0+ (MozJF/SVG)

[200] Submitted by: Jlbrightbill on Fri, 9 Jul 2004 22:23:39 -0400

I was able to remove it by simply deleting it from the folder, and it's now no longer listed in my extension manager. I know that's not the best way, but it's gone now. However, i still have the problem of no preferences window. When I click it, it makes my navigator inactive, and when I click on windows, it shows a second is open but with no name. I can't alt-tab to it and clicking it does nothing. How do I fix my profile?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

[201] Submitted by: Justin on Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:03:43 -0400

I can't for the life of me get Smoothwheel to work in Thunderbird 0.7.2. It's quite disappointing. I've downloaded it, installed it via Thunderbird's install extensions function, and it says it's a success, but doesn't work, nor does it show up in the Extensions window.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.6 StumbleUpon/1.66

[202] Submitted by: Justin on Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:11:48 -0400

Nevermind - I figured it out somehow. It turned out that NO new extensions were installing. I uninstalled and reinstalled Thunderbird, added Smoothwheel, and all is well again.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.6 StumbleUpon/1.66

[203] Submitted by: Bruce on Thursday 15th July 2004 at 16:49 -0400

Doesn't install for me. I'm using the Debian build of firefox 0.9.1. I click the smoothwheel.xpi link, but nothing happens. Other extensions from update.mozilla.org install just fine.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712 Firefox/0.9.1

[204] Submitted by: avih on Friday 16th July 2004 at 00:50 -0400

@Bruce:
can u try to download the file (right-click -> save as) and then drag it into firefox from nautilus or something? or maybe just browse to the download location and click it?

pls let me know if it worked.
avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040414 Firefox/0.8.0+ (MozJF/SVG)

[205] Submitted by: Skipweasel on Wednesday 28th July 2004 at 16:12 -0400

Firefox 0.9.2 under W2k.
Smoothscroll - great, but Options greyed out. Clicking on the blue square doesn't do anything either.
Am I missing the obvious?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

[206] Submitted by: 421376020 on Thursday 29th July 2004 at 20:56 -0400

Hi, I can't find the configuration file. it's v0.41 and Firefox 9.2 on XP pro.

there is no trace of the thing in the firefox directory!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

[207] Submitted by: 421376020 on Thursday 29th July 2004 at 21:06 -0400

Oops. I guess it's not supposed to be configurable or something. Are older versions compatible with firefox 0.9.2?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

[208] Submitted by: 421376020 on Thursday 29th July 2004 at 21:34 -0400

Hm. Looking very very smooth at 75fps, although my LCD panel seems to not like the 90 degree turned portrait mode at anything but 60hz...

anyways, avih, great extension, it's definitely my favorite.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

[209] Submitted by: ex on Friday 6th August 2004 at 17:37 -0400

I am using firefox 0.93. I click the install link, and nothing's installed.I can download the smoothwheel-v0.41.xpi , but I couldn't install it,
firefox 0.8 was fine with smoothwheel.....What must I do?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[210] Submitted by: ex on Friday 6th August 2004 at 17:43 -0400

ok I solved the problem.Saving the xpi file to the disk,and dragging it to the firefox is working.Smoothwheel works fine with fireworks 0.93.Thanks:)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[211] Submitted by: Pussycat on Sunday 8th August 2004 at 13:25 -0400

I'm hoving trouble making a new .jar file with my own preferences. Wich program should I use and which options? ZipOffice failed t produce a working file; it was like smoothwheel wasn't installed at all.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[212] Submitted by: avih on Sunday 8th August 2004 at 16:23 -0400

@Pussycat:
all zip program will do imo (although i haven't tried the specific one u mentioned). the trick is to do it from the rioght directory. i.e. there's a difference whether u select the smoothwheel directory itself and compress it, or u select all the files/olders INSIDE the smoothwheel directory and compress, and then name the compressed file smoothwheel.jar.

best thing to do is to make sure that when u extract your new jar, it expands to exactly the same relative directory structure as the original jar.

hope it helps.
avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040730 Firefox/0.9.1+ (MOOX-AV)

[213] Submitted by: Greg K Nicholson on Monday 9th August 2004 at 13:49 -0400

Just a quick note: on the installation page, you say Smoothwheel is targeted at Firefox versions up to 0.999 and Thunderbird versions up to 0.799. Because Firefox and Thunderbird version numbers aren't "real" decimal numbers, rather they're a sequence of numbers separated by fullstops, "0.799" means "nought point seven hundred and ninety nine", not "nought point seven nine nine". So, it's a higher version number than 0.8 and 0.9. To target versions after 0.7 but before 0.8, you could use "0.7.999". Since the extension versioning system has been changed slightly since Tb0.7/Fx0.9, targetting just Tb0.7 and Fx0.9 should work anyway.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040807 Firefox/0.9.1+

[214] Submitted by: Pussycat on Tuesday 10th August 2004 at 15:56 -0400

@avih: Thanks! I didn't know I just had to create a zip file and rename it! Perhaps it's a good idea to put the tip somewhere though.

But zipping worked perfectly.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[215] Submitted by: avih on Wednesday 11th August 2004 at 03:26 -0400

@Greg K Nicholson:
thx for the enlighlenment ;)
i see your point, but practically, for FF, it doesn't matter (after 0.9[.]xxx, 1.0 will come), and for TB still 1.0 is higher than my max version, and i expect it to hold till TB 1.0. am i wrong?

thx anyway
avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040810 Firefox/0.9.1+

[216] Submitted by: Greg K Nicholson on Wednesday 11th August 2004 at 16:01 -0400

avih, no problem, I just thought you might like to know :)
Actually another thing on the subject - Smoothwheel v0.41 is a higher version number than v0.5, so if/when you release a v0.5, the automatic update mechanism won't recognise the newer version; I suppose you could just call it 0.50.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040811 Firefox/0.9.1+

[217] Submitted by: avih on Wednesday 11th August 2004 at 18:06 -0400

@Greg K Nicholson:
right lol
thx for pointing that out, i guess it'll save me few when the time comes ;)

thx.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040810 Firefox/0.9.1+

[218] Submitted by: Bob on Sunday 15th August 2004 at 15:00 -0400

I love smoothwheel. I think firefox should come with it as default - their "smooth scroll" is anything but.

However, I can't live a default setting of 1 scroll step on firefox 0.9 :( I'm almost considering going back to 0.8 just so I can customize smoothwheel again....any idea when a configurable version will be out?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.8

[219] Submitted by: Andrzej on Tuesday 17th August 2004 at 05:38 -0400

Hi. I can't install smoothwheel v41. When I click on the xpi link, nothing happens.

Do you know what I am doing wrong? I don't have such problems with other extensions.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[220] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday 17th August 2004 at 07:48 -0400

@Andrzej:
I don't know, although i've noticed it too with latest versions.

here's what u can do:
1. download (right-click, save as) the xpi file.
2. open extension-managers (from the tools menu)
3. drag the xpi to the open extension-manager-window.

i'll probably sort that out soon.
thx
avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040810 Firefox/0.9.1+

[221] Submitted by: Andrzej on Sunday 22nd August 2004 at 09:35 -0400

It didn't work, dragging the xpi onto extension manager did nothing.

Then I tried to install it by hand by editing the extensions.rdf file, etc. It didn't help but then it was possible to install it by dragging the xpi onto the extension manager.

The installer didn't ask where I wanted to put the extension and apparently used the files where I had put them by hand.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040810 Firefox/0.9.1+

[222] Submitted by: asdf on Wednesday 25th August 2004 at 04:12 -0400

to the last few posts:

this server is jacked up; i had to go to another site

and it worked here.

i also can't figure out how to edit scroll speeds (there's no smoothscroll.js)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

[223] Submitted by: lett on Wednesday 1st September 2004 at 12:43 -0400

I'm using Firefox 0.9.3 and I just installed Smoothwheel 0.41.

I faced the same problem as the prev post where I could not edit smoothscroll.js because there was none to be found.

Anyway I snooped around and found a way to edit speeds.

1) Go to your profile folder. In Windows 2000, the path is like "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.pwo"
2) Go into the "extensions" folder and one of those folders with weird alphabets and numbers corresponds to smoothwheel's. Find that folder and go in to the chrome folder.
3) You should see "smoothwheel.jar" now. Unzip it and a folder called "content" will appear.
4) In the "content" folder you will find the good old "smoothwheel.js" and you can edit it the same it was done before
5) Lastly zip the "content" folder back to "smoothwheel.jar". Restart browser

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[224] Submitted by: fdsa on Monday 6th September 2004 at 22:12 -0400

Hey avih, any word on when we can get a version with an options panel? Not that going into my profile, renaming, unzipping, editing, zipping and renaming is hard, but for some of the less techie users, there needs to be an options panel. No rush though. Thanks in advance.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040901 Firefox/0.9.3 StumbleUpon/1.995 (MOOX M1)

[225] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday 7th September 2004 at 22:25 -0400

@fdsa:
can't tell, since i'm a bit busy now. if someone is willing to add such an option, i'll gladly review it though, and will probably at release it as a contributed version.

sorry i can't do more atm, however, i always check that smoothwheel is still working with the latest nightlies (all ok so far). it IS on my todo though.

hope u understand,
avih.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040906 Firefox/1.0 PR (NOT FINAL)

[226] Submitted by: CarlozZ on Thursday 16th September 2004 at 11:03 -0400

Please make it work with 1.0PR!!!!

Best regards

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

[227] Submitted by: avih on Wednesday 22nd September 2004 at 04:41 -0400

to make it work with FireFox 1.0PR:

1. go to the installation page
2. right-click the install-link, then select "save link as". save smoothwheel.xpi file to the HD.
3. open the extension manager (tools -> extensions-manager)
4. drag-and-drop the smoothwheel.xpi file from the HD to the open extension-manager

it will now pop the installation dialog.

avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040826 Firefox/0.9.1+

[228] Submitted by: me on Sunday 10th October 2004 at 20:10 -0400

Having smoothwheel installed in 1.0PR causes the check for updates to fail. It would be nice if it worked on 1.0PR.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041010 Firefox/0.10.1

[229] Submitted by: Angelus on Tuesday 19th October 2004 at 07:18 -0400

SmoothWheel doesn't work with 1.0RC1 :~(

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041018 Firefox/1.0

[230] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday 19th October 2004 at 21:10 -0400

>>SmoothWheel doesn't work with 1.0RC1 :~(

yes i'm aware of it. will be handled very soon.

avih.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041014 Firefox/0.10

[231] Submitted by: Angelus on Wednesday 20th October 2004 at 17:06 -0400

avih Thanks it would be nice.
SmoothWheel is one of the best extensions :P

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041019 Firefox/1.0

[232] Submitted by: avih on Friday 22nd October 2004 at 18:44 -0400

smoothwheel v0.42 adds support for firefox and thunderbird 1.0.

please check and let me know if all is ok (it's still not configurable)

thx.
avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041014 Firefox/0.10

[233] Submitted by: ieremiou on Sunday 24th October 2004 at 23:18 -0400

Not sure if my comment made it on here.
It works just fine in Firefox 1.0

No troubles.

Wish it was configurable though ;).

Ty.

Btw Thunderbird is 0.8 (not 1.0) :P.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041022 Firefox/1.0 (MOOX M3)

[234] Submitted by: avih on Monday 25th October 2004 at 06:04 -0400

@ieremiou:
thanks for your comment.

>>Btw Thunderbird is 0.8 (not 1.0) :P.

but of course ;). it's only that i've just about had it with the max-version that extension-authors have to put inside the extension, and have to move it up with each new release of firefox, or else, it won't start because it's "not compatible" with the current version.

so my max-version for smoothwheel is now 5.0 for both firefox and thunderbird (which includes thunderbird 1.0 when it comes out). that was my point ;)

avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[235] Submitted by: Angelus on Monday 25th October 2004 at 06:30 -0400

Working really well. No problems installing. Just installed over 4.1.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041022 Firefox/1.0

[236] Submitted by: Angelus on Monday 25th October 2004 at 06:52 -0400

And with 4.1 I of course mean 0.41 :)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041024 Firefox/1.0

[237] Submitted by: Johnny on Thursday 28th October 2004 at 01:50 -0400

Almost perfect.

All you need to do is make it so you can easily change the settings. And no, editing a file somewhere doesn't count.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

[238] Submitted by: troy on Saturday 30th October 2004 at 09:42 -0400

How I can configure smoothwheel settings on Ff1.0RC?
I cant find smoothwheel.js to edit

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

[239] Submitted by: me on Tuesday 2nd November 2004 at 21:18 -0500

"so my max-version for smoothwheel is now 5.0 for both firefox and thunderbird"
yay no more waiting for it to be updated at each release :)
Anyway, workin fine in 1.0 RC1, just needs to be added to update.mozilla.org so check for update won't fail.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

[240] Submitted by: Torsten Liebig on Wednesday 3rd November 2004 at 09:04 -0500

I'd like to use SmoothWheel with JH's Portable Firefox ( but it does not seem to install right.

That is, installing via install.php of this page here won't do, neither does downloading the xpi and dropping it onto the extension window. No smoothwheel directory is created under /chrome in either cass.

Any ideas?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[241] Submitted by: avih on Wednesday 3rd November 2004 at 17:28 -0500

@Torsten Liebig:

actually, i just tried it (from ). i assume that's the one you're talking about. i used the 1.0PR version. i follows the procedure he suggests (download the xpi, use file->open, restart firefox after installation), and it's working great. i'm using it right now from a usb device, with smoothwheel working great.

care to give it another shot?

cheers.
avih.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

[242] Submitted by: Torsten Liebig on Thursday 4th November 2004 at 04:56 -0500

Hey avih,

installing via file->open did the trick. Thanks. And yes, smoothwheel is smooth as hell. I'd like to have such smooth scrolling in my entire system (windows explorer, word, outlook and the likes). To bad it won't do =(

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

[243] Submitted by: avih on Thursday 4th November 2004 at 11:17 -0500

@Torsten Liebig:
>>I'd like to have such smooth scrolling in my entire system (windows explorer, word, outlook and the likes)

I'm sure u ment open office and thunderbird, right? ;) because it does work for thunderbird too, and i have remote plans to add it to open office ;)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

[244] Submitted by: Dario on Sunday 7th November 2004 at 17:39 -0500

Hey, cool mod! Definitely makes it smooth.

So anyways, I just wanted to let you know that I installed this extension on Firefox RC1/SuSE 9.1 and there doesn't seem to be a smoothwheel.js file anywhere. It's not in my home directory in the .mozilla folder anywhere where I thought it would be, and it's not anywhere under /usr/lib/Firefox either. However, it is installed, and it seems to work fine...

I only figured out the file was missing because I wanted to try changing the settings...

Speaking of changing settings, any chance you can just tie into the exsisting "Preferences" dialog in the extension manager? If you could make an actuall settings page that would be cool, or even having it just open the prefs file in a text editor would work.

Thanks!

-Dario

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

[245] Submitted by: Dario on Sunday 7th November 2004 at 17:43 -0500

Just wanted to also mention that there isn't even a smoothwheel folder anywhere either.

-Dario

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

[246] Submitted by: Dario on Sunday 7th November 2004 at 18:04 -0500

Just found another bug...

Scrolling doesn't work while the mouse is over a flash object.

Steps to reproduce:

Browse to
Position the mouse over the flash animation at the top of the screen
Try scrolling with the scroll wheel

This is on Firefox RC1 running on SuSe 9.1.

-Dario

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

[247] Submitted by: avih on Sunday 7th November 2004 at 18:05 -0500

@Dario:
Right. as the "news" at the top right corner of this page says, the version that u downloaded is not configurable.

HOWEVER, i urge u to try and re-install smoothwheel again, and if you're lucky, and the mirror that u got is updated, u'll install version 0.43.1.20041107 which IS configurable through the standard extensions panel ;)

i'm just waiting for the mirrors to update before i'll update the website ;)

cheers
avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041014 Firefox/0.10

[248] Submitted by: Dario on Sunday 7th November 2004 at 18:06 -0500

Hmmm... I guess Links to web pages aren't allowed...

Oh well, I was just using the Macromedia home page as an example. I'm sure you can find plenty of flash stuff to test with.

-Dario

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

[249] Submitted by: Dario on Sunday 7th November 2004 at 18:12 -0500

.43 is working awesome! And I can configure it! =)

Thanks!

FYI, I couldn't get it from mozilla update. I just ended up using your download link, and it worked fine.

(.43 still has the flash bug.)

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

[250] Submitted by: avih on Sunday 7th November 2004 at 18:19 -0500

@Dario:
RE: scroll over flash objects: yes, that's a known issue. you can enable compatibility mode, which does scroll over flash objects. however, in compatibility mode it doesn't scroll in text areas, in dropdown lists, etc...

i might fix it one day.
thx anyway,
avih.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041014 Firefox/0.10

[251] Submitted by: avih on Sunday 7th November 2004 at 18:21 -0500

yes, update.mozilla.org is beeing worked on. it should get there any day now.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041014 Firefox/0.10

[252] Submitted by: kael@alussinan.org on Sunday 14th November 2004 at 20:35 -0500

Hello Avih,

I'd like to test the SmoothWheel extension but it appears that it is not updated yet and not compatible with Thunderbird 0.9, is it.

Also, could you fix the bug *Reading an entire conversation at one glance (like Gmail) by running the mouse scroller* ?

That would great !

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[253] Submitted by: avih on Monday 15th November 2004 at 18:03 -0500

@ kael@alussinan.org:
1. it does work with ANY version of thunderbird (0.1 -0.9).

2. i don't know what's this *reading an entire conversation...* thing you're talking about. care to elaborate?

thx,
avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0 (MOOX M2)

[254] Submitted by: me on Tuesday 16th November 2004 at 16:08 -0500

Well, 0.43.whatever is on update.mozilla.org, but It still gives me the error about having trounle finding updates, then clicking on details says smoothwheel is the one its unable to work with.
Any idea what the problem is?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[255] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday 16th November 2004 at 19:48 -0500

update.mozilla.org is in progress. it's only available there for firefox (but not on the mozilla/thunderbird pages). also, i need to put up another update file, i'll put it soon.

in the meantime, you can just download the xpi and install it manually (drag it to the extensions panel).

avih.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0 (MOOX M2)

[256] Submitted by: Nolan on Saturday 20th November 2004 at 02:56 -0500

1. I think your "About SmoothWheel" section could be a bit more expansive. Hence my next comment.

The settings dialog seems to imply that if you set it to "fast", for example, you don't need to hold while scrolling to achieve the desired effects, but I must hold the key to do so.

Also, key pressing with fast ot turbo speeds affects the page font size, smaller when scrolling up, bigger when scrolling down.

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[257] Submitted by: avih on Sunday 21st November 2004 at 03:21 -0500

@Nolan:
pls put the mouse sursor over the [?] at the dialog. the modifiers are also used by firefox itself (i.e. ctrl+wheel changes font size). i recommend using alt and shift, as they're not used (well, alt is used to 'scroll' history by default iirc).

the spedd settings (turbo/fast/etc) actually controll the responsiveness, and not the pixels/scroll. i might add another dialog soon that also controlls the pixels/scroll.

thx.
avih

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[258] Submitted by: Ch405 on Tuesday 23rd November 2004 at 02:33 -0500

Nice extension, been using it for a while now. ;)
It seems with the 1.0PR and 1.0 releases, I cannot configure the extension more finely, it seem from the old ways, I could edit smoothwheel.js but now, turbo just does not seem fast enough, there a way to get it a bit faster without holding down another button all the time?

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[259] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday 23rd November 2004 at 20:54 -0500

@Ch405:
for now, only by extracting smoothwheel.jar, and modifying it. i might add more configuration options to the panel when i have time ;)

avih

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[260] Submitted by: Tobu on Saturday 27th November 2004 at 14:44 -0500

Thanks to comment #256, I understand why it is so painfully slow. I'd like it to move very much faster in large webpages (say, to allow me to scroll to anywhere in this huge comment list). This would certaily involve accelerating the pixels/wheel events rate when one keeps scrolling. But even the default scroller feels faster for me (using linux).

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[261] Submitted by: Yvette on Saturday 27th November 2004 at 20:52 -0500

I like the effect. It seems to run a little better after turning off the default Firefox smooth control.

I would requst that the "turbo" setting (faster than the "fast" setting) be even faster. I'm the kinda person that likes to scan large documents, and while I like the "smooth" effect when I zoom in to actually read text, it's not easy to scan quickly.

I find myself moving over to the scroll bar and dragging the page up and down - which seems to defeat the purpose of using the wheel on the mouse.

Nice idea. I'll keep using it.

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[262] Submitted by: Harvey Hotshoes on Saturday 4th December 2004 at 13:01 -0500

Just installed SmoothWheel version 0.42 moments ago and really like it at first blush, however, for some reason, it is not working on Thunderbird version 1.0 which it should according the the changelog line at the top of this page. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks!

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[263] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday 7th December 2004 at 08:17 -0500

for smoothwheel to work with Thunderbird 1.0, please use v0.43 from: downloads.mozdev.org/smoothwheel/smoothwheel-v0.43.xpi

i'll update the version info soon.
avih

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[264] Submitted by: Harvey Hotshoes on Tuesday 7th December 2004 at 10:03 -0500

Thank you for your response.

Updated to v0.43 as suggested and find that smoothwheel still has no effect on TB (whose version number is 1.0RC1).

Secondly, when I reset the speed using the configuration window, no change in speed occurs even going from "Turbo" to "Nice and Easy"

Thirdly, holding the "Shift" key down whilst scrolling returns the browser to a previous page rather than slowing the scroll speed.

Needless to say, something is drastically wrong and, yes, I have shut down both Firefox and TB after installing the Smoothwheel version 0.43 which does appear in the extension list. Even went so far as to reboot the system.

Any ideas?

TIA

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[265] Submitted by: Bright Red Fish on Friday 10th December 2004 at 08:48 -0500

This is nice, but I'm also using Image Zoom with right-click/wheel zooming enabled. Now when I use the wheel to zoom, the page scrolls as the image zooms. Smoothwheel needs a setup option to temporarily disable scrolling with the right mouse button.

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[266] Submitted by: Wild Bill on Friday 31st December 2004 at 14:29 -0500

It's not working for me so I uninstalled it, however it is still in my extention box! I can't get rid of it. I tried to reinstall it but I can't do that either!!!!!
Help!
I would like this off my computer!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[267] Submitted by: 1 on Saturday 1st January 2005 at 05:14 -0500

the latest version has only 4 presets :(

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[268] Submitted by: Tutor on Saturday 1st January 2005 at 16:32 -0500

Installed it on FF 1.0+ on Mac OS X 10.3.7. It works, but I can't find the configuraion file. Any idea where I should file it?

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[269] Submitted by: Z on Saturday 1st January 2005 at 17:42 -0500

1> Smoothwheel is *way* too insensitive -- it doesn't scroll enough with each spin of the mouse wheel... AGONIZINGLY slow.

2> The names for the speed settings appear to do the *reverse* of what they actually say, at least on my platform (Firefox/intel/XP-SP2).

3> "Apply changes without closing" does not appear to function at all.

4> Firefox's enumerating of the plugin at launch seems to require a lot of time before I can actually start using the browser.

...All that having been said, the scrolling algorithm itself looks VERY nice and I'm hoping someday all the bugs can be worked out, or this is actually incorporated directly into Firefox. Great idea!

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[270] Submitted by: lett on Saturday 1st January 2005 at 22:46 -0500

hello Z,
In response to item 1>
You can edit smoothwheel.js and increase the value of "sw_RelativeStepFactor". By default its 0.15 I think. I usually set mine at 0.9

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[271] Submitted by: drew on Tuesday 4th January 2005 at 21:20 -0500

Nice toy. Fixes the crappy intellimouse explorer driver.

Anyway, smooth scroll turns into jump scroll when visiting this site:

Any thought? Running wxp with ff1.0

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[272] Submitted by: drew on Tuesday 4th January 2005 at 21:22 -0500

hmmm. here's the site again:

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[273] Submitted by: drew on Tuesday 4th January 2005 at 21:23 -0500

ok, cannot post a URL for some reason. Here it is with the http: www.tmcnet.com

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[274] Submitted by: avih on Friday 7th January 2005 at 22:01 -0500

@drew:
just tried the site u posted, indeed, jumpy. however, it seems that it's firefox's fault, as it "jumps" even if you just pull the scroll bar. seemd FX is having hard times rendering the site... :/

avih

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[275] Submitted by: Niko on Wednesday 12th January 2005 at 01:56 -0500

I love this extension! Its so much easier on the eyes than the normal smooth scroll that comes with Firefox...
But I seem to have come accross an conflict bug with another extension.
If you have ImageZoom installed and you have SmoothScroll, and you try to right-click and scroll button to zoom, it zooms in on the image and scrolls the page at the same time... This is very annoying, and doesnt normally happen with the normal firefox scroll...
I'd love to see this fixed...
Maybe a way to prevent scrolling when zooming in on an image? Or just disable smooth scroll when the right mouse button is held down??
Thanks in advance, if you can do anything about this ^_~
Niko

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[276] Submitted by: avih on Wednesday 12th January 2005 at 20:38 -0500

@Niko:
thx for your words :)
i think it's a good idea to disable smoothwheel while one of the mouse buttons is held. the thing is, i don't have a clue how to do that :/

if i find a solution, i'll update smoothwheel. if u find oa solution, i'd appreciate if u can inform me on this board or by email.

cheers :)
avih

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[277] Submitted by: Harvey Hotshoes on Thursday 13th January 2005 at 10:09 -0500

The problems on which I reported on the 7th of December persist. (Note copied below.) Additional proof of the fact that Smoothwheel does not work with TB version 1.0 is the fact that holding down the Control key prevents scrolling altogether. Smoothwheel works very well with Firefox.

Below is my message of the 7th of December. I sure would appreciate a response from "avih"!
-------------------------------------------------------
Thank you for your response.

Updated to v0.43 as suggested and find that smoothwheel still has no effect on TB (whose version number is 1.0RC1).

Secondly, when I reset the speed using the configuration window, no change in speed occurs even going from "Turbo" to "Nice and Easy"

Thirdly, holding the "Shift" key down whilst scrolling returns the browser to a previous page rather than slowing the scroll speed.

Needless to say, something is drastically wrong and, yes, I have shut down both Firefox and TB after installing the Smoothwheel version 0.43 which does appear in the extension list. Even went so far as to reboot the system.

Any ideas?

TIA

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[278] Submitted by: Robert Grasso on Saturday 15th January 2005 at 06:10 -0500

I am running Mandrake 10.0 on x86. I just switched to Firefox 1.0 (was previously using 1.0PR) thus just installed Smoothwheel 0.43.1.20041107. In ff 1.0PR I was using sw v0.41 (2004-07-03), and was able to tweak the preset to my taste in smoothwheel.js (sw_PresetSettings=3). In this new version :

1 - the configuration instructions on this site are not valid anymore

2 - the options available in the configuration popup do not match my taste. I had to tweak prefoverlay.xul, enable the hidden options and recover my beloved Medium speed (value=3). I added a value=10 which I like too (speedy enough) (higher values, previously available, do not work ;-). Why did you hide several options, just releasing a small subset ?

Please, in future versions, don't drop the Medium value (3) and value=10 : I need them !

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[279] Submitted by: avih on Saturday 15th January 2005 at 22:10 -0500

@Robert Grasso:
thx for your comments. The reason i've "dumbed down" the interface is because i think that having too many options confuse MOST users. In my next version (i don't have a date yet) I'll probably add more options to the preference dialog, and will leave the rest accessible through about:config (byw, right now u can control the exact preset from about:config)

avih.

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[280] Submitted by: Yes on Wednesday 19th January 2005 at 23:00 -0500

Thanks, I LIKE IT! Works great in Mac OSX (Firefox). Keep up the good work

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[281] Submitted by: Ted on Saturday 22nd January 2005 at 17:16 -0500

I've found that, with the font sizes that I use,
Proportional 20, Monospace 18, and minimum font size 14,
(so I can read text from a distance), all the scrolling is painfully slow. I also seems, strangely, that "Nice and Easy" is somehow proportionately faster than "Turbo".
To fix this, I edited smoothwheel.js to say

if (!sw_modifierHeld(e, sw_ModifierFullPageStep))

that is, to have the "acceleration" on by default, and only turned off with the modifier key.

It seems to me that the calculation of the length of the full page does not take into account a larger than standard font size (viewHeight).

Would it also be possible to have an option to set the individual factors such as sw_fullPageFactor which are now hardcoded? The same could go for the individual speed settings. A spinner or slider would be nice to give the full range of values. This is not just a "power user" or a sort of "toy" feature, because, in my case for example, I need to set faster acceleraton (while scrolling) independently from the "normal" or "starting" scrolling speed. I think there might be other cases, people who have very long home pages with many RSS feeds, or perhaps those who use ImageZoom to magnify images, thereby changing the proportions of the page.

My suggestion for testing, is to make the font sizes and minimum font size very large, to see how this affects the variables.

Oh, it does seem that modifier key CTRL while scrolling is overridden by Firefox, which adjusts the font size using that key. The SHIFT key to disable SmoothScroll also disables scrolling completely.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[282] Submitted by: me on Tuesday 25th January 2005 at 10:03 -0500

When I do a check for updates from tools, options, advanced, I still get the error saying "Firefox encountered problems when trying to find updates for some items"
and when clicking on details smoothwheel is listed as the extension with the problem.
Am I the only one seeing this?

And could you maybe delete 90 % of this comment list, it's getting REALLY long and I don't think anyone will read back that far before posting anyway.
Just a suggestion.

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[283] Submitted by: name on Wednesday 2nd February 2005 at 09:26 -0500

OK

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[284] Submitted by: Lee on Thursday 3rd February 2005 at 03:41 -0500

Hey,
I use fire fox and it sure as hell smooths it out! Makes the scroll wheel a great deal nicer to use! problem is it doesn't scroll fast enough. even the 'turbo' setting is pretty damn slow. using the 'alt' is definetly ultra fast! but there's no middle ground.

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[285] Submitted by: angel on Tuesday 8th February 2005 at 09:13 -0500

I use Netscape 7.1 (which has no built-in smooth scolling function) with the latest (4.3) version of smoothwhell. Good work - but the page scrolling is still not as smooth as in the MSIE - there are often twitchs and horizontal disturbances on the screen.
Did you think about a possibility to decompile and implement the MSIE built-in scrolling function?
I do not need all the "advanced" features like custom delays, speed adaptability etc., just a perfectly smooth scrolling. Are you going to improve it in the future, or this is a definitively dead project? Thanks.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)

[286] Submitted by: NewBoy on Thursday 10th February 2005 at 01:47 -0500

It's great! Don't take the nit-picking criticism too seriously. It's great. My eyes thank you very much!

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[287] Submitted by: angel on Saturday 12th February 2005 at 07:46 -0500

Newboy: Well, you use Firefox, which is a much better (and newer) version of Mozilla, supporting smooth scolling by default ! ... unlike older Mozilla browsers like (my) Netscape 7.1, which does not support it (and works not as smoothly even with 'smoothwheel') - maybe the author of this extension could take a closer look at these older browsers, which have no other eventuality to "smooth scrolling", than this handy extension). I would appreciate it.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)

[288] Submitted by: me on Saturday 12th February 2005 at 16:59 -0500

Netscape 7.2 has been out for a while now, but 7.1 and 7.1 have several known vulnerabilities IIRC.
You may want to consider mozilla 1.7.5 (soon to be 1.7.6)
if you don't like Firefox.

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[289] Submitted by: me on Saturday 12th February 2005 at 17:04 -0500

err...I meant 7.1 and 7.2 have several known vulnerabilities.

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[290] Submitted by: angel on Sunday 13th February 2005 at 07:04 -0500

2me: Firefox is best, but I need the e-mail client built-in, like the one in Netscape. My friend told me, that original Mozilla browsers are more buggy than Netscape, so I keep it. Does the current Mozilla yet support the smooth scrolling natively, like Firefox?

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[291] Submitted by: angel on Sunday 13th February 2005 at 08:23 -0500

ad mozilla/firefox: mozilla 1.7.5 has the same bugs as Netscape 7.2 (for example, the edit/preferences window can not be open more than once in sequence). Firefox works very good, but has very similar look like MSIE, including the IE based bookmark system - not preferred by myself ;) Interesting is the default smooth scrolling fuction, which seems to be the same as in the MSIE. Well, I would like to see two different versions of smoothwheel plugin here - one "enhanced" - the current one, and the mentioned one, emboweled from Firefox, for users of older Mozilla based browsers, in order they could have 2 eventualities of smooth scrolling to choose. I think, it should be no problem to transform the Gecko based smoothwheel function into an installable plugin

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[292] Submitted by: me on Monday 21st February 2005 at 17:06 -0500

hmm...never heard of the edit/preferences window thing, and firefox has the same bookmarks system as mozilla if I recall correctly.
If I were you I would just update to firefox or the latest mozilla and wait for the bugs to be fixed, plus enjoy the added stability, speed, and features that have been added in the past what...year and a half?
like I said there are several security holes in older versions that you need to update to be safe from.

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[293] Submitted by: Tim on Sunday 27th February 2005 at 21:34 -0500

I would like to see Firefox behave as I.E. does on my Mac - namely scroll very smoothly by using Command-drag. The lack of this feature keeps me from using FF very much.
SAFT apparently adds this feature as Contol-drag but also a lot of other stuff.

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[294] Submitted by: Jimmy on Friday 4th March 2005 at 20:13 -0500

This extension was both very functional, and also, a bit of eye-candy.
Works really well for me.

Thumbs up!

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[295] Submitted by: Meshuggah on Saturday 12th March 2005 at 15:45 -0500

Alright, I've been trying to get rid of this living Hell for three weeks, now, but it won't go away, it is like a hemorroid. Scrolling goes reeaaaally slow and I don't wanna hold Alt all the time when I surf - I realized that after 5 minutes of using it, but it just can't be uninstalled. I'm using Firefox and I have tried to uninstall it and install it again 4 times now and nothing changes.

Please, I'm sure many like this extension, but it so is not my cup o' tea. How to get rid of it? And why create something that can't be uninstalled?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

[296] Submitted by: me on Sunday 13th March 2005 at 00:10 -0500

meshuggah, what other extensions are you using?
I have never experienced the problems you have, maybe try a clean install of firefox.
Otherwise got ot tools>options click on smoothwheel and click the options buttton and set scrool speed as fast as you want it.

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[297] Submitted by: Meshuggah on Sunday 13th March 2005 at 06:00 -0500

I'm using Mouse gestures, Gmail notifier, Adblock, Almost full screen, Disable targets for downloads, I must not fear!, Image zoom and Drag to tab.

I've tried to uninstall Firefox, but when I install it again it nothing has changes, even the skin is the same. I tried to clean up the register but that didn't help, either.

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[298] Submitted by: avih on Sunday 13th March 2005 at 21:12 -0500

@Meshuggah:
after you open firefox, go to the options menu, then select extensions. right click on the "smoothwheel" section, and select options (to configure it) or disable, or uninstall if you don't want it anymore.

It's the 1st time i hear that smoothwheel can't be uninstalled. I always check it a lot before i release it.

avih

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[299] Submitted by: Meshuggah on Monday 14th March 2005 at 13:44 -0500

That's how it's been looking for about three weeks now...

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[300] Submitted by: Meshuggah on Monday 14th March 2005 at 13:45 -0500

What the? I posted a link. I'll just remove

gripen.sverok.net/pics/screen.JPG
THAT's how it's been looking for about three weeks now :P

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[301] Submitted by: avih on Monday 14th March 2005 at 17:04 -0500

@Meshuggah:
hmmm, very strange, however as far as i can understand, it's a firefox issue (read: firefox bug).

why would you think i would prevent uninstalling it? i followed "standard procedures" regarding the packaging of smoothwheel. smoothwheel is open source and i don't tend to force my applications on my users.

my recomendation to you is to uninstall firefox (and specifically, delete your profile directory where all the settings, themes and preferences are stored. look for it in the help, or google)

then install a clean firefox version, and just don't install smoothwheel if you don't like it.

sorry that i can't help more.
avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

[302] Submitted by: ias on Saturday 26th March 2005 at 14:03 -0500

Dear friend:

I would ask you to write a new version for Firefox 1.0.2...
I was really satisfied with Smoothwheel, so much, that now I can't live without it!!!
I had problems when 1.0.1 was installed, but thought it was a problem of mine...
Hope you are encouraged enough to create a newer version.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-AR; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2

[303] Submitted by: Kirk on Sunday 27th March 2005 at 05:22 -0500

Thanks for a great extension.
I would like an updated version too - not that the current version doesn't work, it's just annoying to get an error-message when trying to auto-update extensions.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

[304] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday 29th March 2005 at 20:07 -0500

hopefully i'll get a new version out during the weekend. can't promise though, but i will try.

avih

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[305] Submitted by: wsg on Sunday 3rd April 2005 at 18:58 -0400

Running Simply Mepis LiveCD 3.3 (2.6.10 kernel), with no hard disk drive in my "webstation" (1GHz, 256RAM), and saving Persistent Home and Configs across boots by using the "Loadset.sh" and "Saveset.sh" scripts written by "AdrianTM" on the MepisLovers Forum. I have successfully added "Auto Copy", "Adblock" and "QuickNote" extensions to the Firefox version (1.0, I believe) which is included on the Simply Mepis LiveCD 3.3.

But when I try to download "Smoothwheel" to this Firefox browser, I continually get a message (paraphrase): "Firefox can't download extension file---Not a valid install-package".

Any help? Thanks...

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050210 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-6)

[306] Submitted by: wsg on Sunday 3rd April 2005 at 19:02 -0400

The version I have been trying to download is SmoothWheel 0.43.1.20041107

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050210 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-6)

[307] Submitted by: wsg on Sunday 3rd April 2005 at 19:11 -0400

This is the download link as shown in the window after I've clicked on "Download":

It's after clicking "Continue" (or similar) that I get the error message.

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[308] Submitted by: wsg on Sunday 3rd April 2005 at 19:22 -0400

The place I've been starting from is:

Should I start from a different site?

I'm going to try it.

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[309] Submitted by: wsg on Sunday 3rd April 2005 at 19:43 -0400

Well, I have now successfully downloaded v0.42 from

downloads.mozdev.org/smoothwheel/smoothwheel-v0.42.xpi

to this Firefox...and it's working well...Thanks...

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[310] Submitted by: avih on Monday 4th April 2005 at 19:29 -0400

actually, if you're already there then v0.43 is the best since it doesn't have any restrictions on the versions of firefox/thunderbird, and it also has the new configuration panel.

so v0.43 is what everyone should get.

avih

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[311] Submitted by: nick on Monday 4th April 2005 at 19:34 -0400

cool extension, i like it. one problem i have is that it's made it so when i open a combo box (i think that's the name, the thing you get when you do a ....) it doesn't scroll the popup list, it just still scrolls the page. without the extension, the wheel scrolls the list, which is how it should be.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050222 Firefox/1.0

[312] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday 5th April 2005 at 01:03 -0400

@nick:
Hi, can you please give an example url that does that? because on all the "combo boxes" (a.k.a dropdown menus) i tried it scrolls the box smooth and not the page itself.

avih

ps. when you put the url, do NOT put the http part, or else it will be rejected. if it fails, you can email me the url to avihpit (at) yahoo (dot) com

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[313] Submitted by: coniptor on Tuesday 5th April 2005 at 03:53 -0400

Will you be updating this extension soon so that I don't have to download a non official modified version to get it to install in firefox 1.0.2 or thunderbird 1.0.2?
Also will you be setting it so that when I run the software update wizard in either firefox or thunderbird 1.0.2 it doesn't give me an error with regard to smoothwheel?
Thanks in advance and for a great extension.
Wish something similar were available for evolution.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

[314] Submitted by: me on Tuesday 5th April 2005 at 14:51 -0400

I haven't had any problems installing smoothwheel in Firefox 1.0.2, so I'm not sure what you mean, this could have to deal with the fact that I install it from my harddrive (just right click the extension and save as...)
Oh, and your user agent string says you're using 1.0.1 not 1.0.2, you might want to upgrade.

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[315] Submitted by: Particle Man on Tuesday 5th April 2005 at 18:29 -0400

SmoothWheel doesn't seem to work for me in Firefox.

I use a Kensington Expert Mouse 5.0, a trackball w/o a scroll wheel. (Kensington drivers have various problems in WinXP.)

Microsoft applications scroll smoothly and flawlessly.
Non-MS applications have a choppy scrolling, using Kensington's driver.

Kensington's "AutoScroll" is choppy, and "Scroll with Mouse" is an emulated scroll wheel, which like someone mentioned previously, tends to scroll backwards; but depending on the app. it might work okay, just not Firefox; while it doesn't work well, it is smooth. ;)

I'd really like to force the use of MS's scrolling.

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[316] Submitted by: Ben on Wednesday 6th April 2005 at 21:02 -0400

Great extension, but I have a suggestion for a future release: add an option for web page 'inertia' - by this i mean, when grab-scrolling with the middle mouse button, make the webpage decelerate smoothly after being 'slung' in one direction. To see an example of what I am not doing a good job of describing, check out Keyhole's Earth Viewer; in this you can 'throw' the map in a direction that you were dragging it before you let go, and the speed at which it flies is proportional to how fast the cursor was going at release. Of course, it wouldn't be necessary to keep the page in motion after release, but this could be an option as well. I think this would add a neat feel to the browser experience.

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[317] Submitted by: Ben on Wednesday 6th April 2005 at 21:06 -0400

Whoops, disregard that I just realized that this functionality is due to All-In-One gestures extension. Still a great extension, smoothwheel is!

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[318] Submitted by: HG on Sunday 10th April 2005 at 11:25 -0400

SmoothWheel seems to have stopped scrolling smoothly on a lot of pages in Firefox. I think (but I'm not sure) this behaviour is new since the latest Firefox upgrade was released (1.0.2). I'm using SW 0.43.1.20041107. It still scrolls the same distance down the page for each click of the mouse wheel, but it does it jerkily, not smoothly. Any idea why its behaviour has changed?

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[319] Submitted by: coniptor on Thursday 14th April 2005 at 15:13 -0400

I had though when I last posted that I had upgraded to 1.0.2. Typing this from work. At home on all pc's I have 1.0.2 installed.
The main point I was trying to make is that I would really appriciate it if smoothwheel was upgradeable through the now seemingly stable Software Update functionality of Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0.2.
When I tell either one to upgrade they "spin" for awhile and upgrade what extensions/themes have been updated but then tell me there was an issue with smoothwheel. Even if smoothwheel hasn't been updated recently it would be nice of the updater could see that I DO have the most recent release and just ignore it until there eventually is a update if there is ever need for an update. I'm not sure how the update functionality works as far as if it checks up updates on a mozilla mirror or checks a url in the package it self. If I did know and it was a url I'd change it my self but I don't know. =)

Anyway thanks for a great extension.
Hopefully someone will implement it in evolution now that it has plugin support! =)

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[320] Submitted by: Particle Man on Tuesday 26th April 2005 at 17:27 -0400

I have a feature request.

RMB Scroll: Hold RMB, then move mouse to scroll. Unclicking RMB would then prevent the context menu from appearing.

For an old build of Firefox there was an extension that did this, but I cannot find it now.

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[321] Submitted by: Particle Man on Thursday 28th April 2005 at 12:37 -0400

Well, nevermind the above. I found the referred to extension, it's called Scrollbar Anywhere.

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[322] Submitted by: logixoul on Saturday 7th May 2005 at 09:47 -0400

remove the "Configure SmoothWheel" text in the top of the SmoothWheel options dialog box and rename the title bar of the same dialog to "SmoothWheel Options".remove the "quick disable" checkbox.it is available from the context menu in the extension manager.rename the "Apply changes without closing" button to "Apply" and move it at the same row as the "OK" button and the "Cancel" button in the same dialog box.what does "compatibility mode" do?

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[323] Submitted by: avih on Sunday 8th May 2005 at 04:55 -0400

@logixoul:
hehe, actually I have a modified version which i'm working on with exactly the changes u described, plus some more options that weren't available on the configuration panel till now.

re: quick disable: Not really the same as the system disable since the quick disable allows you to do that instantly (= without restarting firefox/thunderbird/mozilla) for testing purposes.

re: compatibility mode: uses alternative mechanism for detecting the object to scroll underneath the mouse cursor. Might work better with older browsers, and it's there as a quick alternative mechanism if it doesn't work on a specific page.

cheers,
avih

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[323] Submitted by: avih on Sunday 8th May 2005 at 04:57 -0400

@logixoul:
hehe, actually I have a modified version which i'm working on with exactly the changes u described, plus some more options that weren't available on the configuration panel till now.

re: quick disable: Not really the same as the system disable since the quick disable allows you to do that instantly (= without restarting firefox/thunderbird/mozilla) for testing purposes.

re: compatibility mode: uses alternative mechanism for detecting the object to scroll underneath the mouse cursor. Might work better with older browsers, and it's there as a quick alternative mechanism if it doesn't work on a specific page.

cheers,
avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

[324] Submitted by: Phosphor on Friday 13th May 2005 at 12:57 -0400

Avi...

SmoothWheel has been such a beautiful addition to Firefox (presently running the latest v 1.0.4), but it seems that Tiger may have broken the smoothness. I've spent a considerable amount of time over the past week trying to regain that smoothness though tweaking of various combinations of parameters in:

•Mac OS X 10.4's Mouse preference panel
•Logitech Control Center cordless optical mouse ware (versions 1.1; 1.4.1; and the latest - 1.5.0) for Macintosh
•USB Overdrive - Latest version (10.3.9) offered for upgrade/download on 12 May 2005
•The SmoothWheel options themselves.

If you can offer any suggestions about how to find the proper combination of settings to bring back the brilliant smoothness I'm sure I won't be the only grateful user.

Best regards on your fine work...now where's that PayPal donation button? :o)

Cheers!
Phos

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[325] Submitted by: avih on Friday 13th May 2005 at 13:52 -0400

@Phosphor:
Hi there, Ok, it's the 1st time I hear that Smoothwheel isn't working with tiger (OTOH , I didn't hear it does work with Tiger either). I would appreciate if you could email me and we can try to find the issue over IRC/IM.

However, I would like you 1st to check if other Tiger users have the same issue.

I can be contacted at:
avihpit (_at_) yahoo (_dot_) com

cheers,
avih

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[326] Submitted by: Phosphor on Friday 13th May 2005 at 15:22 -0400

Thanks for the prompt reply, Avih.

I just dispatched an email to you with my iChat screen name.

—Phos....

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[327] Submitted by: logixoul on Saturday 14th May 2005 at 08:43 -0400

glad to hear you have plans to apply some of my suggestions.

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[328] Submitted by: Cesar on Saturday 14th May 2005 at 19:22 -0400

Hi, I also have problems with the combo boxes:
It doesn't scroll the popup list, it just still scrolls the page.

You can see the problem in the combo boxes in Slashdot.
For example:

There is a combo box to choose the threshold. I get the described problem in that combo box.

If you want to get more info from me you can mail me at: listas _at__ ono.com

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-1)

[329] Submitted by: avih on Sunday 15th May 2005 at 05:15 -0400

@Cesar:
just tried the threshold drop-down menues in slashdot. there's NOTHING to scroll inside the combos, so it scrolls the page instead. i might disable this functionality, although i find it kinda cute myself.

If you can show me combo-boxes that SHOULD scroll but don't, i'd appreciate it. also, when you post urls, try to scramble them a bit since they're filtered out if entered as normal urls.

cheers
avih

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[330] Submitted by: Andy on Friday 20th May 2005 at 11:42 -0400

The latest version points to 0.43 not 0.42 as it says at the top of the page and the update checking always errors on this extension. Not that I'm complaining cause I love your extension. But, if you could find the time to fix the update that would be dandy.

Thanks

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[331] Submitted by: phil on Sunday 22nd May 2005 at 00:22 -0400

this doesn't seem to work w/ me. i have a logitech cordless trackman trackball. does this conflict? really curious to see this in action ! thx!

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[332] Submitted by: avih on Sunday 22nd May 2005 at 01:48 -0400

@phil:

Logitech mice come with their own driver. It's not neccessary to install that driver AFAIK, but if it is installed then it sometimes has "smart" features of it's own (like smooth scrolling). If these are enabled then firefox might NOT get the wheel-scroll events at all, and therefore SmoothWheel won't either, and it won't work.

Try to disable various "smart" features of the driver and try again. Please post your result here such that others can benefit too.

thanks,
avih

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[333] Submitted by: Animal on Tuesday 24th May 2005 at 05:56 -0400

Just upgraded from a later version to 0.44. Love the extra tweaking ability by the way. However, despite working from drop down menus various other extensions (Adblock, PrintIt, Reload every) fail to show up on the context menu after installing.

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[334] Submitted by: Cesar on Tuesday 24th May 2005 at 07:36 -0400

OK, I found a page where it should scroll the combo-box but it scrolls the page:

www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

See the combo box "Platform".

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[335] Submitted by: Cesar on Tuesday 24th May 2005 at 07:42 -0400

And please, I'd appreciate if you mail me any new comment, because it's unlikely that I visit this forum in a regular basis. Thanks a lot for you time and work.

listas _at__ ono.com

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[336] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday 24th May 2005 at 08:40 -0400

@Cesar:
Tried that page (win32 only). Scrolls fine for me. tried resizing the window, and changing the text size to affect the scrollability of various parts, and it always scrolls ONLY the drop-down box (platform, and the rest of them too).

I might give it a go from knoppix or other debian based liveCD when i'm home. I don't have a permenant linux installed.

avih

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[337] Submitted by: Cesar on Tuesday 24th May 2005 at 19:04 -0400

I've made an screenshot of the webpage showing the problem: users.evtek.fi/~k0400388/smoothscroll.png

As you see in the screenshot, the combobox has been moved to the top of the page, out of the normal place.

To get this effect, I scroll down to the bottom of the page, then I click on the combobox, I put the mouse over the list of options, then I scroll up.

Instead of scrolling in the list of options, the combobox stays in the same place, and the page scrolls in the background. Quite weird behaviour.

Tomorrow I will try with a new clean Firefox profile, to ensure that we are not conflicting with any other extension.

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[338] Submitted by: Cesar on Wednesday 25th May 2005 at 05:53 -0400

OK, I tried with a new, clean Firefox profile, and the bug is still there.

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[339] Submitted by: avih on Wednesday 25th May 2005 at 13:37 -0400

@Cesar:
ok, thx for your work on reproducing the bug in a clean state of firefox.

1. Can you just tell me on what percentage of drop-down boxes does this bug show? is it rare? random? usually? always?

2. Can you find a specific scenario at which the bug shows? (i.e. when the drop-down actually "drops-UP" as in your picture, when the drop-down is near the bottom or top of a document, etc). This might help me while looking for a solution.

I must say though that since i'm unable to reproduce it eventhough i tried a lot (still only tried win32) it's not on top of my priorities.

thanks again.
avih

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[340] Submitted by: Knot2Brite on Thursday 26th May 2005 at 09:25 -0400

SW installed but the Options buttons is grayed out and I can't find anywhere where I turned it off by mistake.

How do I turn the Options on?

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[340] Submitted by: Knot2Brite on Thursday 26th May 2005 at 09:26 -0400

SW installed but the Options buttons is grayed out and I can't find anywhere where I turned it off by mistake.

How do I turn the Options on?

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[341] Submitted by: Cesar on Thursday 26th May 2005 at 11:11 -0400

I guess it is pretty hard to solve the bug if you can't reproduce it :-(

Now about the details:

1- I was trying in several webpages, and I think the problem happens always. (You only need a drop-down menu in a webpage longer than the browser size, so that you can scroll the page).

2- I think it doesn't matter the position of the drop-down menu. You just need to click in the drop-down, the it opens the menu, you place the pointer in the middle of the menu and then you try to scroll with the wheel. Then, always the page is actually scrolling, not the menu.

Regards.

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[342] Submitted by: avih on Thursday 26th May 2005 at 15:16 -0400

@Cesar: Ok, i've reproduced the bug with FX 1.04 on debian (knoppix 3.7.02). I'll have a look at it when i have time.

@Knot2Brite: Strange, never happened to me. maybe you can try though, to 1st click on the SmoothWheel entry with the left mouse button (select it) and then click with the right mouse button. i think it helped me once. as far as i understand it's a firefox bug. if it still doesn't work, then all i can suggest is a clean install (firefox + profile).

cheers
avih

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[343] Submitted by: avih on Thursday 26th May 2005 at 15:22 -0400

test user agent from (real) FX 1.04.

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[344] Submitted by: avih on Saturday 28th May 2005 at 14:10 -0400

@Cesar:
I sent you a fix by email, I need you to try it please. Let me know if you got my email.

avih

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[345] Submitted by: avih on Saturday 28th May 2005 at 18:49 -0400

for anyone who's interested in Cesar's issue (scroll over drop-down lists): It's been fixed in a test version of smoothwheel, and reported as a bug on bugzilla:

bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295831

avih

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[346] Submitted by: regulgator on Monday 30th May 2005 at 11:35 -0400

IMPORTANT
doesn't seam to work with Feedview.

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[347] Submitted by: darcy on Monday 30th May 2005 at 23:14 -0400

Is there a way to make it feel and move exactly like the opera 8 smooth scroll? I really like that, and it is the only thing making me not switch back to firefox. What are the configuration settings I need to achieve this effect. And I mean exactly the same, if this is possible please let me know. Thank you

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[348] Submitted by: avih on Monday 30th May 2005 at 23:56 -0400

@darcy:
SmoothWheel is NOT derived from Opera or IE or any other scroll implementation. It's based on original ideas, and actually, it seems that many people like the way it behaves.

However, if you find the exact configurations that make it scroll exactly like Opera, feel free to post them here such that others may use it too.

avih

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[349] Submitted by: JoeG on Tuesday 31st May 2005 at 19:09 -0400

I sse you've just done an update and v0.44.4 seems to work fine with 1.0.4 (and my Logitech Trackball).

How 'bout getting it to work with the new Deer Park Alpha? Thanks for the great work.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+

[350] Submitted by: psyke on Sunday 5th June 2005 at 11:09 -0400

I'd also like to see this excellent extension working for Deer Park Alpha, but I have a slightly off-topic question: what's the visual style you used in the screenshots for smoothwheel?

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[351] Submitted by: avih on Sunday 5th June 2005 at 15:31 -0400

@psyke:
Pretty cool ha? It's called "Opus OS" from www.web9design.com/themes/

;)

avih

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[352] Submitted by: Phyber on Monday 6th June 2005 at 23:47 -0400

Hi,
i just tried to install this excellent extension on firefox 1.1 (deer park), i modified the install.rdf file - changing the maxversion to 1.1, and it installed, but after restarting firefox, a message box popped up telling me that smoothwheel is incompatible, and has been disabled.

is there any way i can get it to work?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2 x64; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050603 Firefox/1.0+

[353] Submitted by: Paul B on Tuesday 7th June 2005 at 03:31 -0400

Any fix for the problem Harvey Hotshoes was having with the shift modifier? (264 & 277)
I think the tool tip help mentions it, but what it seems to talk about doesn't seem to exist.

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[354] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday 7th June 2005 at 05:28 -0400

@Phyber: haven't tested with Deer-Park alpha yet. I'll have a look at it.

@Paul B: It's not a bug, because I will not "steal" firefox modifiers (i.e. CTRL+scroll = text size, SHIFT+scroll = browse history, etc). So, read the tooltip again, and if you don't understand it, do as follow:

1. enter about:config in the address bar.
2. in the filter field enter: mousewheel.with
3. you'll see few lines that passed this filter. Now, if you want to make smoothwheel use shift, you should remove the original functionality that causes to browse the history, so double click the "mousewheel.withshiftkey.action" line, and change the value from 2 to 0. this will prevent firefox from "capturing" SHIFT+scroll, and as a result smoothwheel will be able to use SHIFT to the functionality that you select (i.e. faster or slower scroll).

hope this helps.
avih

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[355] Submitted by: Paul B on Tuesday 7th June 2005 at 23:52 -0400

Ahhh, thank you.

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[356] Submitted by: lett on Saturday 11th June 2005 at 06:16 -0400

Hi avih,

Sent you an email about some modifications I did to smoothwheel pertaining to behaviour of the scrolling when switching tabs using a mouse gesture.

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[357] Submitted by: nue on Friday 17th June 2005 at 11:50 -0400

Hi,

I've installed ver.0.44 but where can I find the configuration options in my firefox (1.04) ?

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[358] Submitted by: sq on Saturday 18th June 2005 at 06:08 -0400

I use Netscape 7.1. and I also did not find any config window for smoothwheel 0.44 in it.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)

[359] Submitted by: avih on Saturday 18th June 2005 at 06:55 -0400

@nue: tools -> extensions -> right-click on smoothwheel -> preferences/options

@sq: enter in the address bar: chrome://smoothwheel/content/prefoverlay.xul

avih

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[360] Submitted by: sq on Sunday 19th June 2005 at 07:18 -0400

Wow, works great, thanks a lot !!

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[361] Submitted by: pixeljockey on Sunday 19th June 2005 at 12:18 -0400

really nice... thank you for your work!

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[362] Submitted by: Pablo on Friday 24th June 2005 at 17:27 -0400

Great extension!
Avih: do you have any plans of fixing the auto update problem? This is the only extension from the 20 I have installed in my FF that fails to get updated.

BTW, quoting an old post that is still current:
"""
And could you maybe delete 90 % of this comment list, it's getting REALLY long and I don't think anyone will read back that far before posting anyway.
Just a suggestion.
"""

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[363] Submitted by: Ted on Sunday 26th June 2005 at 03:30 -0400

The new configuration options in SmoothWheel finally solve the problem of "inverse speed" in Windows XP. The fix here is to set the speed to Slowww (1 Sec) to get adequate responsiveness in XP. The other options finally make it possible to get the scrolling just the way you want it without having to modify the code, as I did before.

Having had this extension for many months, I was completely unaware that a new version came out since autoupdate does not work. I only discovered the enhancements and fixes when I had to reinstall all my extensions when creating a new profile.

Please fix the autoupdate problem!

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[364] Submitted by: Tom on Monday 11th July 2005 at 23:55 -0400

I love it, but one request, not sure if possible to be folded into this extension our would require extension of its own but here goes:

I've love to if when you click on the scoll bar, it acted like the Mouse Click-Lock setting, where you just click and held for half a second then could drag and browse at your leisure, much smoother than normal scrolling, even with smoothwheel.

I've tried running my comp. with Click-Lock active, but it just is too inconvenient for some many other functions in Windows so turned it off.

So I'm not sure if it would require another extension to do this, or could be inc. in an update of Smoothwheel, but it would be a fantastic feature and thought it fit in most naturally with this extension.

Thanks.

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[365] Submitted by: Recall on Thursday 14th July 2005 at 08:56 -0400

This is a fantastic extension and I love it. One thing is it possible to have the dead stop responsiveness of turbo speed, with the smoothness of slowwww?

This would make the extension perfect for me, as using slow it does not come to a dead stop, it keeps on scrolling for a couple of milliseconds.

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[366] Submitted by: avih on Thursday 14th July 2005 at 20:56 -0400

@Tom: re: click-lock: I think that's a project for another extension. You could also try all-in-one-gestures which has similar feature (scroll-anywhere). I'm affraid that's outside the scope of SmoothWheel though.

@Recall: Thank you :). The "problem" you describe is inherentic to the functionality of SmoothWheel. That is, the smoothness is achieved BECAUSE it scrolls slow. I cannot think of a way to both make it "dead-stop" responsiveness AND smooth... you'll have to find the balance of the various setting that best suits you :( sorry.

avih

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[367] Submitted by: Kahil on Wednesday 27th July 2005 at 19:42 -0400

Nice!!! Only a couple things though... sometimes it is still a little choppy, but still better than without... and then when you scroll, things blur a little while moving...

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[368] Submitted by: TechTroid on Friday 12th August 2005 at 15:03 -0400

Would it be possible to expose all of the 'old' options (the ones in the file) through about:config? I always find myself not quite being able to get the exact kind of scrolling I want without them.

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[369] Submitted by: M-Rick on Wednesday 17th August 2005 at 16:57 -0400

Would it be possible to add a preferences pane module for the settings of SmoothWheel in the preferences window in the way that the Tabbrowser Preferences does ?

It would be more convenient to access the settings this way than opening the extensions windows, then right-click and then preferences ...

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[370] Submitted by: JvA on Sunday 28th August 2005 at 11:36 -0400

Works like a dream on both windows and mac systems I've had it on, except that it transfers horizontal scrolling with apple's Mighty Mouse into vertical scrolling.

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[371] Submitted by: avih on Sunday 28th August 2005 at 14:10 -0400

@all: sorry i wasn't able to answer recently, been pretty busy.

@TechTroid: could you be a bit more specific pls? did u have a specific option or combo in mind? i tried to put as many options as possible without making the options page too "crowded". if you describe your missing option, i might add it to the current panel.

@M-Rick: you could bookmark this url for a direct preferences window: chrome://smoothwheel/content/prefoverlay.xul

@JvA: hmm... I find it a bit hard to solve since i don't own a mac. If you have little javascript knowledge, would you be able to analyze the mouse event properties and identify what distinguishes horizontal from vertical event?

avih

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[372] Submitted by: JvA on Sunday 28th August 2005 at 18:51 -0400

I have a little bit javascript knowledge, but don't know how to analyse a mouse event. If you can point me to a reference or something I will give it a try.

I tried Xev though, and for some reason it registers no event at all with the horizontal scrolling. I don't know what that means..

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[373] Submitted by: TechTroid on Saturday 3rd September 2005 at 13:03 -0400

I did have a specific combo in mind, but I was thinking more like you could put the options like

"sw_ScrollDuration"
"EnableRelativeStepSize"
"EnableAdaptiveStep"
"AdaptiveStepMinStepFactor"
"AdaptiveStepMaxStepFactor"

etc., into about:config, so people who already had it configured that way could just move the settings into there, without having to mess with the options in the gui, that don't have a 1:1 correspondence with the old way of configuring above.

Also, completely unrelated to that, it seems that on some pages(most?), if you have the cursor over the scrollbar, then the smooth scrolling doesn't work.
Do a google search and try it out.

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[374] Submitted by: avih on Sunday 4th September 2005 at 17:02 -0400

@:
thanks for your comments :)

some of the values you mentioned are already in the about:config values (all with prefix extensions.smoothwheel.):

scrollDuration - doesn't need introduction, you can put any value there.

presetAdaptiveDuration - 0 for disabled, 1,2,3,4 for AdaptiveDurationMinStepFactor/AdaptiveDurationMaxStepFactor of 0.9/1.5, 0.8/2, 0.5/2.5, 0.3/3 respectively

presetAdaptiveStep - 0 for disabled, 1,2,3,4 for AdaptiveStepMinStepFactor/AdaptiveStepMaxStepFactor of 0.6/1.1, 0.4/1.2, 0.3/1.5, 0.2/2 respectively

compoundStepSize - positive value for a relative step size, and value is the relative value, i.e. 0.15 for 1/7 page. negative values is for absolute step size in pixels (i.e. -200 is absolute step of 200 pixels regardless of the page height)

you can find other values too in the about:config page, just type "smoothwheel" into the filter field.

The reason for the "preset" values (adaptive step/duration) is that i couldn't find the technical method for setting 2 values using one drop-down box. if i could, i would have kept the values "normal". note, you can still add more presets yourself or modify some values from the smoothwheel.js file inside the jar.

When i release another version though, i'll have a look at it, and if possible, will add the values explicitly to the about:config panel. also, if you manage to solve this little issue yourself, i'll be more than glad to integrate your patch.

thanks again,
avih

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[375] Submitted by: radsaq on Friday 9th September 2005 at 16:00 -0400

I hacked smoothwheel several months ago to ignore horizontal mousewheel events:

I can't really shed much light on the subject though; all I managed to figure out was the fact that -32768 and 32768 denote left and right scroll wheel events.

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[376] Submitted by: radsaq on Friday 9th September 2005 at 16:03 -0400

Okay, apparently I can't include a URL, so..

diff -urN content-old/smoothwheel.js content/smoothwheel.js
--- content-old/smoothwheel.js 2005-05-23 23:45:52.000000000 -0400
+++ content/smoothwheel.js 2005-06-05 01:56:03.495204472 -0400
@@ -677,6 +677,9 @@
return;
}

+ if (e.detail == -32768 || e.detail == 32768)
+ return;
+
var alreadyScrolling=(sw_velocityCurrent!=0);
var now= (new Date()).getTime();
if (!alreadyScrolling){//already scrolling, do average 2

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[377] Submitted by: JvA on Sunday 11th September 2005 at 05:40 -0400

Wow, thanks a lot radsaq, that solves it. Very happy with using smoothwheel again :)!

(Now if only scrolling horizontally would be as smooth as vertically ;)...)

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[378] Submitted by: OdB on Sunday 11th September 2005 at 06:21 -0400

A keyboard-activated autoscroll feature would be *really* useful, especially for people with RSI/carpal tunnel. There is some software for IE that allows you to press a hotkey, and then it just scrolls the webpage smoothly & automatically (& continuously, until you press another hotkey). Would it be possible to add this feature?

Yours sincerely,

Onno (onnod@lycos.com)

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[379] Submitted by: Shubidu on Sunday 11th September 2005 at 06:33 -0400

smoothwheel and Image Zoom

The Image Zoom extension allows to zoom any image
in a page by holding the right mouse button over
the image and turning the wheel.

Problem is that with smoothwheel installed the page
starts scrolling at the same time.

Any solution for this?

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[380] Submitted by: Fred on Sunday 11th September 2005 at 07:42 -0400

What about Smoothreel and Firefox 1.5 beta 1 ?

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[381] Submitted by: radsaq on Sunday 11th September 2005 at 13:06 -0400

> (Now if only scrolling horizontally would be as smooth as vertically ;)...)

One could theoretically reproduce everything smoothwheel does with a second set of state variables to handle horizontal scrolling and it shouldn't be too much trouble (which I had considered trying, but was too lazy to do)..

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[382] Submitted by: Recall on Sunday 11th September 2005 at 15:29 -0400

To the maker: Can I just say I have been using this all thru the nightlies and also the latest Beta 1 of 1.5. Can you please bump the max version to 1.5 as it will allow people to install who have the beta and above ( or below ) I can confirm there is zero instability problems by doing this.

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[383] Submitted by: avih on Sunday 11th September 2005 at 19:48 -0400

@Fred,Recall: the update.rdf file already enables it for firefox 1.5. after fresh install of 1.5b smoothwheel works fine for me. pls let me know if "help -> check for updates" doesn't work for u. pls install the latest version if u don't have it already (44.7.xxx).

@radsaq: re: horiz. scroll ignore: thx, i'll incorporate your patch in my next release. re: make h. scroll work too: i'm too lazy too, but i'll see if i can do it. no promises though ;)

@OdB: keyboard activation was asked already several times. i understand the importance and i'll have a look at it in my next release. can't promise anything though, it doesn't seem trivial to me. patches are welcome.

thanks all for your comments :)
avih

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[384] Submitted by: Particle Man on Wednesday 21st September 2005 at 22:46 -0400

Again, Kensington's mouse driver is horrible for scrolling. Microsoft Office 2003 scrolling is far superior. Is there any way to utilize or derive MS' methods for use in Smoothwheel? 8)

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[385] Submitted by: Ria on Sunday 25th September 2005 at 06:52 -0400

Please, Smoothwheel just broke on trunk builds. See

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[386] Submitted by: Ria on Sunday 25th September 2005 at 07:00 -0400

This is the error I see in the JS Console:

Error: scrollObj.nodeToScroll has no properties
Source File: chrome://smoothwheel/content/smoothwheel.js
Line: 418

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[387] Submitted by: kholburn on Tuesday 4th October 2005 at 16:38 -0400

I am running it on a Mac powerbook with iscroll2. (scrolling with 2 fingers on the trackpad). Smoothwheel disables horizontal scrolling. Can I have horizontal scrolling back?

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[388] Submitted by: MM on Thursday 20th October 2005 at 02:25 -0400

It would appear options is broken on latest download.
Options window is cut in half ?.

FF 1.0.7

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[389] Submitted by: xhaker on Monday 24th October 2005 at 17:23 -0400

Doesn't work right with Microsoft Intellimouse 4 in Linux platform.
I mean.. this mouse has a tilt-able wheel that is supposed to scroll horizontally, and it does exactly that if i disable this extension, with this extension enabled it scrolls vertically.
I guess you're not taking in mind people can have double scrollbar mouse device or even a mouse like mine.

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[390] Submitted by: xhaker on Monday 24th October 2005 at 17:45 -0400

So i managed to make it work with the patch above, but my values are very different i should say.. -3 and 3 are my "special" values :)
Running 1.5b2 in Linux

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[391] Submitted by: champ-o on Tuesday 25th October 2005 at 13:10 -0400

I have tried the "fix horizontal scrolling" hack/patch mentioned above; the values -/+32768 don't fix the scrolling. The values -/+3 mentioned by xhaker do allow horizontal scrolling, but they also add some jerkiness to the acceleration of smoothwheel. Where can I look up the meanings of different values for e.detail in smoothwheel.js, to find the proper settings? Cheers!

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[392] Submitted by: felix_eleven on Tuesday 25th October 2005 at 23:24 -0400

BUG. With all the toolbars, etc. enabled, when the font is big, and when the config page chrome://smoothwheel/content/prefoverlay.xul is accessed, the config page is too big to fit on the screen. However, there is no vertical scroll bar on the right, so it is not possible to scroll down to access the RESET OK APPLY CANCEL buttons on the bottom of the page.

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[393] Submitted by: Dersou1 on Sunday 30th October 2005 at 23:15 -0500

Hi.

I try to find an extention that would allow me to scroll Thunderbird's windows like MouseImp pro does with other programs.
I use a Laptop with a touchpad and I'm use to scroll with Right-Click + Touchpad up or down.
MouseImp Pro does it very well but unfortunetly doesn't work with Thundebird and is not supported anymore....
Any idea welcome.
Thanks

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[394] Submitted by: Ry on Wednesday 9th November 2005 at 10:52 -0500

Has high CPU usage - not recommended.

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[395] Submitted by: JonC on Wednesday 9th November 2005 at 22:42 -0500

Like one or two people here and one or two on the comments page at mozilla update, I tried this with an LCD screen and it is somewhat blurry so it gives me a headache looking at it.

Avih (or anyone else), do you know of any tweaks I can do to resolve this? My screen's max refresh rate is 75hz so I set the refresh rate of the extension to the same.

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[396] Submitted by: WLFung on Wednesday 16th November 2005 at 02:06 -0500

I install the latest SmoothWheel Extension for my friend's fresh installed FireFox 1.5 RC2. I found that this Extension shows up incompatibility for FireFox, being tested from 1.5 Beta2 ~ RC2.

It only makes worked while installed on FireFox 1.5 Beta1 and upgraded it afterwards. If a total fresh installed FF on version 1.5 Beta2 upwards, the Extension is not allowed to be install.

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[397] Submitted by: T. on Saturday 19th November 2005 at 10:41 -0500

Works great in TB, luv it! When scrolling down a page in FF (1.0.7) it is very jerky when scrolling back up the page it works fine. I've tried compatibility mode doesn't make a difference.

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[398] Submitted by: Lunchtimemama on Saturday 24th December 2005 at 04:31 -0500

Got a problem: In Google Reader ( scrolling with the mouse over the list will scroll both the list and the page. The correct behavior (and the default Firefox behavior) is to only scroll the list. Perhaps SmoothWheel isn't obeying some JavaScript that disables the page scroll? I'm not sure, but it's really insufferable.

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[399] Submitted by: DeepFreeze3 on Thursday 12th January 2006 at 08:32 -0500

For some reason, SmoothWheel v0.44.7.20050605 makes my homepage (CNN.com) act weird when being viewed in Print Preview. Specifically, I couldn't use my scroll wheel to scroll up & down. When I disabled the extension, it started working again.

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[400] Submitted by: Lorenzo on Tuesday 17th January 2006 at 12:07 -0500

Hey, excellent extension. I have a suggestion:

I've been an IE user forever and just recently switched to firefox. In IE, I got very used to being able to scroll down a webpage by middle clicking the scroll wheel and moving my mouse down.

However in IE, if you scroll the wheel up or down while in this mode, the scrolling will stop. In firefox, it stays in the scroll mode and just scrolls up or down. Is there any possible way to fix that?

Much thanks.

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[401] Submitted by: Jon on Tuesday 31st January 2006 at 08:40 -0500

Any timatable on a FF1.5.0.1 compatible version of SmoothScroll?

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[402] Submitted by: Pat Drummond on Wednesday 1st February 2006 at 16:14 -0500

I've tried every setting and I still can't get my page to scroll down more than about 8 lines with each wheel scroll. I love the "smooth" but not the "short".

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[403] Submitted by: me on Wednesday 1st February 2006 at 23:41 -0500

Thanks for the great extension, definitely a must have, but needs updating before it will work in 1.5.0.1 :(

"Extension authors, remember to mark your extension maxVersion as ‘1.5.0.*’ to indicate that your extension is compatible with Firefox 1.5.0.1 and future stability releases. If the extension maxVersion is set only to ‘1.5&#8242;, the stability releases will cause the extension to be disabled."
(from the mozilla developer news blog)

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[404] Submitted by: me on Wednesday 1st February 2006 at 23:43 -0500

Actuall it might also work if set to work with 1.6a1 as well. I have seen many extension authors do that.

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[405] Submitted by: Pawel on Thursday 2nd February 2006 at 08:15 -0500

Hi there, suprisingly your usefull extension doesnt work with updated firefox 1.5.0.1, could u plz make it compatible again?

Greetz,
Pawel.

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[406] Submitted by: Thangaraj on Thursday 2nd February 2006 at 15:19 -0500

Are any updates available for 1.5.0.1? The updater says that smaoothwheel will be disbled since it is not compatible. This is the one reason, I have not updated FF yet.

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[407] Submitted by: Marco on Friday 3rd February 2006 at 06:46 -0500

Please Update for FF 1.5.0.1

Thanks!

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[408] Submitted by: Blaze16 on Friday 3rd February 2006 at 17:36 -0500

Similarly please update for FF 1501.

Smoothwheel is a great extension

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[409] Submitted by: trode on Friday 3rd February 2006 at 23:25 -0500

Odd? It appears to have been patched to work for Linux but not Mac OS X. Is it a different extension? I was under the impression that it was os independant. Is there some hacking to do on the Mac side to fix the problem?

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[410] Submitted by: AnneG on Monday 6th February 2006 at 01:48 -0500

Yes, yes, please update for Firefox 1.501!

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[411] Submitted by: Dirtydan on Saturday 11th February 2006 at 18:47 -0500

Please update for FF 1.5.0.1

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[412] Submitted by: Eeltje de Vries on Tuesday 14th February 2006 at 05:30 -0500

Smoothwheel is one of the great extensions to Firefox! Please provide an update for Firefox 1.5.0.1...

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[413] Submitted by: Particle Man on Thursday 16th February 2006 at 14:30 -0500

I fiftieth the motion to update SmoothWheel to FF 1.5.0.1.

Until then, has anyone tried to mod the src versioning? :)

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[414] Submitted by: gladi8r on Friday 17th February 2006 at 03:11 -0500

modding the install.rdf to show 1.5.5 or something above1.5.0 works.

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[415] Submitted by: Particle Man on Friday 17th February 2006 at 10:15 -0500

You don't even have to mod the install: SmoothWheel works with 1.5.0.1.

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[416] Submitted by: 774 on Tuesday 21st February 2006 at 06:45 -0500

It doesn't become effective in ONLY this page.

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[417] Submitted by: 774 on Tuesday 21st February 2006 at 06:45 -0500

It doesn't become effective in this page.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; ja-JP; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; ja-JP; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

[418] Submitted by: this... on Tuesday 21st February 2006 at 06:46 -0500

www8.atwiki.jp/denkianzen/pages/10.html

It doesn't become effective in this page.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; ja-JP; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

[419] Submitted by: Lorenzo on Wednesday 1st March 2006 at 00:23 -0500

I'm using a Microsoft Bluetooth mouse with tilt-wheel and smoothwheel breaks tilt-wheel functionality such that tilting causes vertical scrolling as opposed to horizontal scrolling. Looking through the comments, this seems to have been addressed once already but seems to have re-appeared.

Thanks in advance.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

[420] Submitted by: Loki on Sunday 5th March 2006 at 06:06 -0500

SmoothWheel seems not to work with latest trunk builds of Thunderbird and Firefox :(
Well, it works into the Options menu and in EM/TM windows, but not into the page or mail body :(

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060304 Thunderbird/3.0a1 - Build ID: 2006030409

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060213 Firefox/1.5

[421] Submitted by: ynard on Thursday 9th March 2006 at 04:01 -0500

FireBug extension for Firefox gives this error with Smoothwheel, when the page is not scrollable (no scrollbar is visible) and when the mouse wheel is used:

scrollObj.nodeToScroll has no properties - smoothwheel.js (line 578)

Is this possible to fix, I love both extensions but dislike the fact that errors are piling to Firebug for no reason.

Thx for the killer extension!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

[422] Submitted by: Chris Wood on Thursday 6th April 2006 at 08:20 -0400

Works for me fine in Firefox 1.5.0.1.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

[423] Submitted by: Andrea on Friday 14th April 2006 at 07:50 -0400

Excellent extension! :-)
Works well in Firefox 1.5.0.2

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2

[424] Submitted by: me on Monday 17th April 2006 at 17:43 -0400

avih, I'm wondering if your last comment in bug 206438 is still relevant:
"after much time with my donation link, and $0 donated, i've given up on that
subject. i'm willing to help implementing my algorithms instead of the current
smooth scroll implementation.

i don't think i have enough time to set up a compilation environment though, or
to learn the gecko code. therefore, if someone wishes to try it himself, just
email me to avihpit (*at*) yahoo (*dot*) com and i'll help as much as i can.

cheers
avih"

Are you still willing to let this be the firefox default?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2

[425] Submitted by: makina-galaxy on Saturday 22nd April 2006 at 19:59 -0400

Is it possible to have a scroll smooth like opera (the browser ?)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2

[426] Submitted by: ripos on Thursday 27th April 2006 at 10:40 -0400

On Very long pages (2-5mb of pure text) the scrolling becamy veeeery lazy. It redraws the frame ne time per 5 seconds or so.
May be you can do some internal switch to skip smoothing for Big pages.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2

[427] Submitted by: Darken on Monday 15th May 2006 at 01:16 -0400

Hello,

Any chance for a real update of this extension for soon? thanx in advance!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060514 Firefox/1.5.0.4 - Build ID: 2006051405

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060514 Firefox/1.5.0.4

[428] Submitted by: prezende on Wednesday 24th May 2006 at 18:41 -0400

I would like to have scrolling disabled while the mouse right button is pressed, so that the interactive zoom image funcion from that extension can work properly.
Is there a way to do this disabling in the current version of smooth scrolling? In any future version? If possible, I would appreciate to have this feature configurable through the preferences panel.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pt-BR; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

[429] Submitted by: Brandon on Tuesday 30th May 2006 at 14:41 -0400

Any progress on vsync? I love this extension but can't stand the tearing.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

[430] Submitted by: Mark Lord on Sunday 11th June 2006 at 11:48 -0400

Smoothwheel is now *essential* for me, but it *still* breaks horizontal scrolling (touchpad, in my case). The fix posted here in Sept'2005 corrects it, though. Any chance of getting this into the official release ???

Cheers

diff -urN content-old/smoothwheel.js content/smoothwheel.js
--- content-old/smoothwheel.js 2005-05-23 23:45:52.000000000 -0400
+++ content/smoothwheel.js 2005-06-05 01:56:03.495204472 -0400
@@ -677,6 +677,9 @@
return;
}

+ if (e.detail == -32768 || e.detail == 32768)
+ return;
+
var alreadyScrolling=(sw_velocityCurrent!=0);
var now= (new Date()).getTime();
if (!alreadyScrolling){//already scrolling, do average 2

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

[431] Submitted by: OakvilleJ on Sunday 18th June 2006 at 23:14 -0400

I use SmoothWheel in Thunderbird for full-page scroll. It works fine in the message pane, but scrolls too far in the 'list of messages' pane.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

[432] Submitted by: Parasyte on Sunday 7th January 2007 at 16:46 -0800

Is this even still in development? I need my horizontal scrolling back. I suppose I have no choice but using the DIFF and hoping it's not all that bad.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

[433] Submitted by: Indigo on Tuesday 13th February 2007 at 16:09 -0800

Hello,
I'm an Italian extension localizator (I collaborate with babelzilla.org and extenzilla.org)..

may I suggest to make a localizable structure for your extension?

If you're interested in localizing your extension I also suggest to visit babelzilla.org that is a community that provides a localization in many languages..

thanks

Indigo

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

[434] Submitted by: Jovelyn on Friday 16th February 2007 at 03:15 -0800

If the flash drive.. is not formmated' what can i do?

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)

[435] Submitted by: Jovelyn on Friday 16th February 2007 at 03:21 -0800

jove.medes@gmail.com

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)

[436] Submitted by: wscientist on Thursday 22nd March 2007 at 13:18 -0700

Hello!
Well, I'm having a problem with the Smoothwheel. I have a Microsoft Intelli Mouse Explorer 4.0 Mouse and recently updated the driver for it. After the update smoothwheel no longer work how it should. The horizontal scrolling with the tilt wheel of the mouse doesn't work. Smoothwheel reacting like I'm rolling the scroll of the mouse to scroll the page down or up, but no in horizontal direction.
Please help!!!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

[437] Submitted by: someone else on Sunday 25th March 2007 at 15:16 -0700

Works great, it would be even cooler if there was an option that makes it "bounce" back if you scroll to the end of a page quickly.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

[438] Submitted by: Indigo on Monday 2nd April 2007 at 10:02 -0700

Hi!

With the help of the precious "Externalize!" extension, I have made a locale structure for your extension..

I can't find an address I can send it to..

If your're interested, please mail me at
gpailli [AT] pendolo [DOT] it

and look at this topic

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

[439] Submitted by: Indigo on Monday 2nd April 2007 at 10:03 -0700

sorry the previous address is

giacomo.pailli [AT] gmail [DOT] com

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

[440] Submitted by: Alan on Thursday 12th April 2007 at 14:17 -0700

Just upgraded to Firefox 2, this addon reports it's not compatible. I miss my smooth scrolling a lot and I'm sure other FF2 users do as well - max-version update, please? :)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

[441] Submitted by: Chris Wood on Sunday 15th April 2007 at 02:19 -0700

Alan, get the latest version from

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

[442] Submitted by: gulp on Friday 11th May 2007 at 16:35 -0700

heres one... in french

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070410 BonEcho/2.0.0.3

[443] Submitted by: imho on Monday 28th May 2007 at 10:14 -0700

use the MRTech extension to force compatibility

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070517 BonEcho/2.0.0.3

[444] Submitted by: Jack on Friday 7th September 2007 at 23:41 -0700

The newest version of Firefox for Ubuntu says that Smoothwheel is no longer compatible, and there doesn't appear to be a newer version of it yet. Help!

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.6 (Ubuntu-edgy)

[445] Submitted by: avada on Friday 28th September 2007 at 05:20 -0700

"Just upgraded to Firefox 2, this addon reports it's not compatible. I miss my smooth scrolling a lot and I'm sure other FF2 users do as well - max-version update, please? :)"
The latest version (v0.44.9.20061102) works with ff2, try it. >

By the way. What happened to smooth wheel? It's not updated anymore.And it's not even listed on addons.mozilla.org . Sad. :( For me smoothwheel is one of the most important addons with adblock plus and tabmixplus.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; hu; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7

[446] Submitted by: avada on Friday 19th October 2007 at 02:55 -0700

:(

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; hu; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

[447] Submitted by: avih on Saturday 27th October 2007 at 01:03 -0700

@avada:
SmoothWheel 0.44.7, 0.44.9 and the new 0.44.10 ARE compatible with Firefox 2.0.0.x. for 44.7 you have to be online while installing to succeed (it checks the online update file to make sure 0.44.7 is compatible with firefox)

The reason it doesn't appear on addons.mozilla.org is that the online update file is hosted here on mozdev rather than on their website, and they don't like it so they removed it for now.

I don't think their policies are reasonable regarding the versioning, and i really can't update it on their website every time a new firefox version comes out (that's what's needed), smoothwheel is my baby but i do have other important things to do than update it on every new application version (and smoothwheel works with ALL mozilla apps, inclucing NV|U, seamonkey, netscape, thunderbird, etc), it's just too much hustle for me.

So the versions you'll find here are compatible with all the apps out of the box.

cheers,
avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

[448] Submitted by: avada on Monday 29th October 2007 at 10:31 -0700

I have no problem personally that smoothwheel is removed from addons.mozilla.org beacuse I know where to find it, but a lot of people won't have a chance to know about smoothwheel. If I remember correctly I found smoothwheel by searching on a something like "smooth scrolling" on addons.mozilla.org

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; hu; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

[449] Submitted by: jimmy g. on Friday 23rd November 2007 at 15:59 -0800

It's great tool but still it needs some fine tuning to be smooth as Opera like, because it has twitches which sometimes are really annoying.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9

[450] Submitted by: kanenas on Sunday 25th November 2007 at 17:16 -0800

Any tip about enabling SmoothWheel on Fx 3b1? I can't use Fx without it.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9

[451] Submitted by: Henry on Friday 30th November 2007 at 07:09 -0800

To enable SmoothWheel in Fx 3b1 go to about:config and add "extensions.checkUpdateSecurity = false". Restart Fx and enjoy SmoothWheel

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9b1) Gecko/2007110903 Firefox/3.0b1

[452] Submitted by: Paul on Saturday 1st December 2007 at 12:56 -0800

Many thanks for this add on, love the smooth scrolling now and don't think I could go back to the default :)

Unfortunately, it seems that this little app also disables the ability to zoom on webpages using ctrl+mousewheel though :(

Is there any chance of a fix?
Or are there any workarounds or other extensions that could use the horizontal scroll (Logitech G7 tilt) to achieve the same effect.

Many thanks again to the author and thanks in advance to anyone who might be able to help.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007120105 Minefield/3.0b2pre

[453] Submitted by: Paul on Saturday 1st December 2007 at 13:38 -0800

solved my zoom problem :)
I opened the smoothwheel.jar file and edited the smoothwheel.js file

The only line I altered was:
var sw_ModifierDisableSmoothWheel=2;

changing the value from 0 to 2 for the CTRL key.

Now when I hold down CTRL, smoothwheel is disabled and zoom works with the mouse scrollwheel :)

Now I've noticed that smoothwheel doesn't work on all pages tho... ;)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007120105 Minefield/3.0b2pre

[454] Submitted by: Mara on Friday 21st December 2007 at 13:54 -0800

Avih, will Smoothwheel also be updated for Firefox 3? There are problems on trunk; the wheel doesn't scroll anymore on certain parts of sites. E.g. when there is a long table in a border-collapse table. clientWidth en clientHeight is changed for table-cells in border-collapse tables (bugzilla bug 332922).

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2007122111 Minefield/3.0b3pre

[455] Submitted by: avih on Wednesday 26th December 2007 at 02:15 -0800

@Mara:
It should be updated, although the update URL might be a bit problematic. Regarding the bug you mentioned, tried going there, seems an invalid bug id. Regardless though, I don't usually like workarounds for mozilla bugs. If it's their bug, then It'll get fixed.

cheers,
avih

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

[456] Submitted by: Mara on Monday 31st December 2007 at 15:58 -0800

This is the bugzilla bug that caused the change:

It affects a lot of sites.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2007123100 Minefield/3.0b3pre

[457] Submitted by: Paul on Friday 18th January 2008 at 11:42 -0800

In IE6 when my cursor was over the picture(any image, regular or link), I was able to press down a scrolling wheel on my mouse and cursor would turn into wheel that i coud drag all over the screen. Now for some reason I can't do that in IE7 and Firefox. Is there is any solution to be able to do that again? Thanks.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; sbcydsl 3.11; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; yplus 4.1.00b)

[458] Submitted by: Fedorov on Monday 28th January 2008 at 07:55 -0800

I'm using todays nightly build of Firefox 3.0 pre-beta3 and Smoothwheel is no longer working when my mouse pointer is inside table elements on various forum sites including the mozillazine.org forums themselves. Placing the mouse pointer in whitespace down the sides of any forums pages (outside of any tables) and smoothwheel continues to work.

I really miss the smooth scrolling! Appreciate any fix or reference to a bugzilla on this one.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008012804 Minefield/3.0b3pre

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008012804 Minefield/3.0b3pre

[459] Submitted by: fimbe on Monday 28th January 2008 at 08:25 -0800

I´d like to use the AltKey bigger steps with "Rimwheel" ( ). Rimwheel invokes a javascript code when rolling the mousewheel up or down. Smoothwheel can scroll bigger steps if Alt key is pressed. Is there a way to tell through javascript that the Alt key is being pressed or invoke Smoothwheel bigger steps?

Im thinking in putting this code in the rigth rim in Rimwheel

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2

[460] Submitted by: fimbe on Tuesday 19th February 2008 at 15:17 -0800

..Actually the code being executed is not javascript. Is some internal firefox code.
This is what rimwheel executes when rolling the mousewheel up and down respectively:

gBrowser.tabContainer.advanceSelectedTab(1, true);

gBrowser.tabContainer.advanceSelectedTab(-1, true);

..and this is what I want to replace with smoothwheel:

var w = e.target.ownerDocument.defaultView;
w.scrollBy(0, -w.innerHeight * rimwheel_pageratio);

var w = e.target.ownerDocument.defaultView;
w.scrollBy(0, w.innerHeight * rimwheel_pageratio);

This code executes either by rolling the mousewheel up to down respectively.
The scrolls are very rude.
Rimwheel has a user interface to replace the code for any of his eigth rims.

So please I ask you your help. It will be nicer to use rimwheel using smoothwheel to scroll pages
Thanks in advance.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3

[461] Submitted by: avada on Sunday 9th March 2008 at 08:35 -0700

How about using smoothscrolling for page up/down? It would be nice. Opera has something like that.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008030806 Minefield/3.0b5pre

[462] Submitted by: spiffae on Wednesday 12th March 2008 at 21:05 -0700

Smoothwheel is now listed as incompatible with Firefox 3 Beta 4. We smooth junkies need our wheel! :) I do like the idea of a smooth PgUp/PgDn

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030714 Firefox/3.0b4

[463] Submitted by: spiffae on Saturday 15th March 2008 at 11:52 -0700

Update: the thing causing SmoothWheel not to work is the lack of "secure updates" you can work around this - but it's not ideal, and possibly opens the browser up to vulnerabilities.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030714 Firefox/3.0b4

[464] Submitted by: Sedrik on Monday 17th March 2008 at 05:39 -0700

love your stuff!!!! Please let me know when you update your site. I'm always looking for something funky!

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Embedded Web Browser from: http://bsalsa.com/; InfoPath.1)