Thanks, I've tried all that with the exception of a fresh clean HD reinstall. It still happens, I check the repositories daily for FF updates so far none have fixed the auto scrolling. It's not constant it happens from time to time in about an hour of browsing I get maybe three incidents which last for 30 sec to 1 min. and occasionally a single auto scroll to the bottom or top of a web page. It's annoying but does not prevent me from using the app. I don't like Opera and Chrome is still in development, I tried it but it has bugs too. I will likely go to it once all the bugs are out. Thanks for all the suggestions and if I don't find a solution shortly I am considering a fresh reinstall. I haven't done one since 2007 which speaks very highly of how stable and user friendly this OS really is. Again, thanks.
--- On Thu, 10/22/09, Gary <xheralt@yahoo.
From: Gary <xheralt@yahoo.
Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Firefox problem
To: LINUX_Newbies@
Received: Thursday, October 22, 2009, 3:51 PM
I don't care how much y'all hate FF3.x, reverting to FF 2.x is a security breach waiting to happen, and the *worst* frakking advice to give someone.
As far as the memory leaks go, well, I've just learned to not leave my browser open overnight when I go to sleep, it's fine otherwise. I tend to run into more immediate troubles dealing with script-heavy sites (like yahoo.com).. .
Opera just doesn't do it for me, it doesn't have the extensions I need or the themes I want.
I'm running PCLOS 2009.2 on a 1.8GHz Sempron-based laptop, and never had that autoscrolling problem.
Glenn, have you tried starting Firefox in safe mode [code]firefox --safe-mode[ /code] and resetting everything? It might even be worth your while to remove/reinstall Firefox from within Synaptic, or even to do a total OS re-install (custom, preserving your /home partition) from a 2009.2 LiveCD, because sometimes glitches and other artifacts get carried forward when one upgrades, drek that gets eliminated by a clean install.
--- In LINUX_Newbies@ yahoogroups. com, "glenn596658" <glenn596658@ ...> wrote:
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> I am using pclinuxos and have been for four years. I have done all the upgrades and keep my system up to date. Since the new Firefox release, 3.5 (currently 3.5.3) I have experienced the screen "auto scrolling" up and down for minuets at a time with no way to stop it short of closing down Firefox and restarting it again.
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