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I upgraded to Mavericks and now the scoll on my trackpad won't work. It works in Chrome, the finder, or MS suite. Only FF doesn't work.

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The question has pretty much all the details. I'm running latest FF and Mvericks and the scroll/backward/forward function in the trackpad doesn't work. I can scroll in any other program, just not FF.

The question has pretty much all the details. I'm running latest FF and Mvericks and the scroll/backward/forward function in the trackpad doesn't work. I can scroll in any other program, just not FF.

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Try:

  • System Preferences > General > Show Scroll Bar > Choose "Always"
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Try:

  • System Preferences > General > Show Scroll Bar > Choose "Always"
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You're my favorite person ever! Thanks!

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You're welcome atlantisflygirl.

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Maybe I spoke too soon. It worked briefly, but when I opened a link in a new tab, scrolling broke. :( Now it won't work in any tab again.

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but then if I close and reopen FF, scrolling works again.

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).

  • Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window.
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I just updated to 29 and now my trackpad won't work. It's only in Firefox - it works with all other browsers/programs. I tried the preferences, setting solution..it was already set to 'always.' thanks for any assistance.