Firefox 2.0 and the scrolling mouse click

The final release of FireFox 2.0 came out yesterday though I didn’t notice it because the RC3 that I installed automatically updated itself along with several plugins/extensions that are not fully compatible with it.

The best feature thus far that I noticed was the spelling tracker built in it — so, while I’m writing this post inside WP-Admin, I can see red dotted lines on words that had typo errors in them. A spelling check has long been wanted for WordPress but there’s no need for that now since it’s built-in with Firefox.

The only bug that’s been bugging me is that scrolling mouse click. I’m not sure if this is an isolated case but every time I go to a fresh new page and click on any link, the page just scrolls up to the top — it’s as if the link I just hit was a name anchor (e.g. back to top). I thought the final release would have fixed this bug but it’s still there.

Anybody else experiencing this same thing?

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

21 Comments

Maria loves pictures says:

18 years ago

Firefox 2 is just great. I like the automatic update function that makes me feel secure at all time.

Thank you for sharing this sorty with me !
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elmer says:

18 years ago

Because of these new features these web browser packed everytime they come up with new version it’ll not be surprise if this so called “thin client” becomes your fat client (blame it to web 99.0, ajax, superwheel etc..) then the interoperability gap between these browser become wider.
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ade says:

18 years ago

FF2 also scrolls up for me. I thought it was something wrong with my blog’s AJAX. Thanks for pointing it out.

I love the spell check feature.
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jhay says:

18 years ago

I’ve yet to download my copy of FF2 (sounds like Final Fantasy doesn’t it? lol) I’m excited but since you guys mentioned about that little bug, I’m thinking ‘should I download now or wait for that bug to be fixed?’

Any ideas?
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Shutter Box PHilippines says:

18 years ago

No scrolling mouse click problems on my FF 2.0.

Love the built-in spell-check feature as well ;)
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Punzi says:

18 years ago

The Firefox Release Candidates have been hanging on my MacBook for the past few weeks, requiring a forced quit. I could not use it for more than 10 minutes without a restart. And I didn’t notice 2.0 was officially released until I saw your entry.

So the final version likewise has the same problem. That’s why I’m using Camino for a while.

But I do love the online spell checker. It’s like typing on Microsoft Word…
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Anthony says:

18 years ago

encountered no problems with firefox 2.0

I especially like the “restore session” feature. :)

-Anthony
http://kubuntu101.blogspot.com
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Abe Olandres says:

18 years ago

I installed the final version and it didn’t have the scrolling bug I had in RC2. It seems like if you update from RC2 to Final, it inherits the bug but not if you do a fresh install.
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Aja says:

18 years ago

I haven’t encountered that problem ever since I started using Beta 1 of Fx 2. I also like the session restore feature that I have used as an extension since Fx 1.5.x.x. There are also some isolated rants about Firefox 2 bugs (i.e., keeps crashing, etc.) but I think none has been confirmed yet to be a bug within the browser itself.
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Dajad says:

18 years ago

I’m having this problem and have had it since RC2 and its driving me crazy! I updated to the final 2.0 hoping it would solve the problem and it hasn’t?

Does anyone know if I reinstall 2.0 after removing 2.0 will that solve the problem? If so, how can I save all my Bookmarks before I do this?

…DAle
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