1. There used to be a choice in settings for Firefix mouse control to be optional. It is no longer available and apparently FF has created default mouse behavior.
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1. There used to be a choice in settings for Firefix mouse control to be optional. It is no longer available and apparently FF has created default mouse behavior.
The mouse behavior has become errant in a variety of ways. It interferes with everything online and started doing the same on the desktop.
The wheel is configured for three lines at a time on desktop. I do not want the mouse wheel to be doing anything else. I want either or both mouse buttons to open menus and function normally with links, copy and paste.
When looking in about:config the extensive number of configured mouse defaults is shocking. it is impossible to determine how to disable or delete any of them.
It has become impossible to scroll with the wheel and the scrollbar because the mouse jumps all over the page as if possessed.
It is impossible to scroll 3 lines at a time with the wheel, instead the mouse goes up and down and jumps to the top. Changing the number of scrolling lines on Desktop and in about: config so they are both 3 did not solve the problem. Tried changing both to 5 . . . no joy.
Expandable menus no longer open on some websites.
It has also become impossible to us the scrollbar effectively, instead the same behavior manifests as it does with the wheel - the mouse is jerky, going up and down and jumping to the top of the page, unpredictably.
Either way the mouse gets stuck moving up and down. After having successfully scrolled past where it was previously it returns, repeatedly, to the same previous lines each time I try to scroll further - in an endless loop.
If the mouse does functional, briefly, then half way down the page it starts misbehaving again.
I already replaced the mouse several months back when the problem started, however, it was not constant. Then it started again with the new (usb) mouse. (Yes, I've cleaned it. No it is not worn out yet.)
2. Via a search I did find a list of adjustments to make in about:config while learning unexpected mouse behavior had become a common problem. I made at least 20 adjustments, and amazingly, there was no longer a problem! Smooth scrolling, no problems. However, after using the browser, closing and opening it numerous times, the errant behavior returned.
3. If there is no way to completely turn off FF mouse control, or use about:config to disable it entirely, then what is the last FF version that allowed saying "no" to what used to be optional mouse control, so it is possible to change back to it? If there is no other way to solve the problem, that should do it.
Any suggestions or solutions appreciated.
16 GB memory, 500 GB SSD. (chose to not install Windows 11 version 23 onward - so in the 22 gray zone that is both a windows 10 install and a windows 11 install - this is the windows 11 install).
