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Firefox navigating away while you try to type?

Date Posted: March 19, 2009
Author: Gigs
Syndicated from: Gigs Shrugged
Filed Under: MV-SL-Technical

I had a problem for a long time now that Firefox would go forward or back while I was trying to type into a text box. I discovered, somewhat by accident, the cause of this today.  It turns out if you have a wheel mouse that uses detents to scroll in discrete increments, sometimes the wheel can stop between detents, depending on which mouse you have.   A few seconds or minutes later, the mouse wheel will “pop” into place, normally just causing a little unintended scrolling.  This happens with a lot of Microsoft Mice apparently.

But when you are holding the shift key, say because you are typing in a text field and capitalizing a letter, instead of scrolling, the wheel

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