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Back in the days it was always possible to change Proxy port number (or, I believe, any other numeric value) by moving the mouse scrolling wheel when the cursor is placed inside the related field. I don't know whose intelligent decision it was to disable this functionality, but it has gone since the last update (v130.0). Now the window scrolls regardless of the cursor position. It looks like it works fine, but for those who are used to this kind of functionality, it turns out to be inconvenient.

Please, roll this back before it's too late :) Thank you.

Back in the days it was ''always'' possible to change Proxy port number (or, I believe, any other numeric value) by moving the mouse scrolling wheel when the cursor is placed inside the related field. I don't know whose intelligent decision it was to disable this functionality, but it has gone since the last update (v130.0). Now the window scrolls regardless of the cursor position. It ''looks'' like it works fine, but for those who are used to this kind of functionality, it turns out to be inconvenient. Please, roll this back before it's too late :) Thank you.
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There is a pref in about:config to control this behavior.

  • about:config => dom.input.number_and_range_modified_by_mousewheel => true
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techmanage said

or, I believe, any other numeric value

That guess was confirmed: value of any `<input type="number">` field cannot be changed with scrolling wheel anymore. Nonetheless that was possible in the previous version of the browser. Is this now considered expected behavior?

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There is a pref in about:config to control this behavior.

  • about:config => dom.input.number_and_range_modified_by_mousewheel => true

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Woohoo! Thank you so much. But still kindly a question: is it worth disabling it by default? Were there any complaints?

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