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Scroll tab stopped working but only on cookies window in options

southwestforests
southwestforests
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Yesterday evening at some point, the scroll slider tab stopped working - only on cookies window in options. Works on every other thing with a tab slider to scroll down the page. Looked up some things in Mozilla help. There was mention of holding shift key, or space bar, I've now forgotten which, then clicking mouse button. Tried that with both buttons on the mouse, and the wheel thing clicks too. Tried that with shift key, CTRL, ALT, space bar: no change in condition.

Yesterday evening at some point, the scroll slider tab stopped working - only on cookies window in options. Works on every other thing with a tab slider to scroll down the page. Looked up some things in Mozilla help. There was mention of holding shift key, or space bar, I've now forgotten which, then clicking mouse button. Tried that with both buttons on the mouse, and the wheel thing clicks too. Tried that with shift key, CTRL, ALT, space bar: no change in condition.

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cor-el
cor-el
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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

The new in-content about:preferences page has replaced the previously used standalone Options/Preferences window.

You can toggle browser.preferences.inContent to false on the about:config page via a double-click to restore the standalone Options/Preferences window that you had in previous Firefox versions.

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.

southwestforests
southwestforests Úinéir na ceiste
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Okay. Tinkering around in the programming will have to wait for another day, my health is a mess and today is not a smart day to be doing that.