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micro-scrolling sideways (but only on some websites)

Open ideologysec opened this issue 7 years ago • 1 comments

  • macOS 10.14.2
  • Firefox 64.0
  1. Pinch to zoom in
  2. Scroll down

Some sites work, some sites don't work.

It seems to be website dependent, but some websites, when I try to slow scroll down (like I might a line or five at at time to read, as opposed to "grabbing and throwing" a big hunk of content), is the site also scrolls horizontally. This makes for a very unpleasant experience, but it's also not consistent, which is worse. Essentially, the page ends up scrolling diagonally.

A site that does work well for slow scrolling: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688990 A site that doesn't work well GitHub (so, ie, this issues page).

Is this an extension issue, or a Firefox issue, or a website issue, or...?

ideologysec avatar Jan 09 '19 02:01 ideologysec

Sorry for the slow response, thanks for the report @ideologysec!

I've investigated and I see what you mean – the bugzilla page locks the scroll direction whereas the github page it's free scrolling in so you have to be precise when scrolling down.

I'm not sure why there'd be a difference in behavior however! The scroll locking is handled by the browser rather than the addon but maybe it's possible to prevent firefox free scrolling. Needs some more investigation.

haxiomic avatar Feb 11 '19 14:02 haxiomic