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How can I stop tabs from suddenly moving too fast when scrolling through them?

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Cheepnis
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I have a lot of tabs that I keep open all the time and when I use the left or right scroll arrows to cycle through the ones near my current tab, I want them to scroll AT THE SAME SPEED ALL THE TIME!

I DO NOT WANT the acceleration feature that seems to kick in if I click on the arrow for more than a few seconds. I appreciate the attempt to make this more efficient, but it actually is more of a major annoyance than anything else and there seems to be NO WAY TO TURN THIS OFF! When I want to go to a tab far away from were I am, I will use the drop-down dialog. Does ANYONE actually like that acceleration?!?! I cannot fathom why.

How do I turn off this stupidly useless "feature"?

Thanks!

I have a lot of tabs that I keep open all the time and when I use the left or right scroll arrows to cycle through the ones near my current tab, I want them to scroll AT THE SAME SPEED ALL THE TIME! I DO NOT WANT the acceleration feature that seems to kick in if I click on the arrow for more than a few seconds. I appreciate the attempt to make this more efficient, but it actually is more of a major annoyance than anything else and there seems to be NO WAY TO TURN THIS OFF! When I want to go to a tab far away from were I am, I will use the drop-down dialog. Does ANYONE actually like that acceleration?!?! I cannot fathom why. How do I turn off this stupidly useless "feature"? Thanks!

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Thank you. I adjusted the default value of 150 for toolkit.scrollbox.clickToScroll.scrollDelay to 15000. That seems to take care of my problem.

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cor-el
cor-el
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If you click too fast and aren't moving the mouse of the scroll button then Firefox sees this as a double to triple click.

  • a double-click mouse one window width
  • a triple-click moves to the first tab or last tab

There are also toolkit.scrollbox prefs that relate to the Tab bar.

  • toolkit.scrollbox.scrollIncrement
  • toolkit.scrollbox.smoothScroll
Cheepnis
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Chosen Solution

Thank you. I adjusted the default value of 150 for toolkit.scrollbox.clickToScroll.scrollDelay to 15000. That seems to take care of my problem.