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Slower Tabs Scrolling with Mouse Wheel

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sammydavis535 replied
sammydavis535
sammydavis535

Hello Mozilla Community!

I've been at this for about two months and can simply not find a solution. I normally have 40+ tabs open in my desktop browser. I can put my mouse cursor/pointer over the tabs and using my scroll wheel shift visible tabs left or right (not actually switching to another tab).

All of the sudden it seemed that when I do this the tabs just absolutely fly by. Like I can't shift just two or three tabs at a time, it's shifting 10+ tabs with just a single scroll wheel 'click'.

I can see ten tabs or so and I know that what I want is just a few to the right, when i begin to scroll them the tab I want goes shooting by so far left it's gone now. I 'm left having to click the left/right arrows to move just one tab at a time, but if I click them too fast I get basically the same response. They just go flying by.

How can I slow this down without also changing the vertical scroll speed of the mouse when reading long webpages?

Thank you, John

Hello Mozilla Community! I've been at this for about two months and can simply not find a solution. I normally have 40+ tabs open in my desktop browser. I can put my mouse cursor/pointer over the tabs and using my scroll wheel shift visible tabs left or right (not actually switching to another tab). All of the sudden it seemed that when I do this the tabs just absolutely fly by. Like I can't shift just two or three tabs at a time, it's shifting 10+ tabs with just a single scroll wheel 'click'. I can see ten tabs or so and I know that what I want is just a few to the right, when i begin to scroll them the tab I want goes shooting by so far left it's gone now. I 'm left having to click the left/right arrows to move just one tab at a time, but if I click them too fast I get basically the same response. They just go flying by. How can I slow this down without also changing the vertical scroll speed of the mouse when reading long webpages? Thank you, John

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sammydavis535
sammydavis535 Umnini wombuzo

after all this time, all this searching around. finally created an account here to ask and then the solution appears in the side bar here. lol..... crazy

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1443821

Mariam
Mariam

A quick fix you can do is, you can hold down the Alt key (Windows) or Option key (Mac) while scrolling your mouse wheel. Firefox catches this modifier key and drops your scrolling speed to a slow, controlled pace.

sammydavis535
sammydavis535 Umnini wombuzo

Hey Mariam, 

               Totally forgot about that. I had read this a while back and forgot. It's a bit of a pain though. I really prefer to have it just work as I'd like without any further interaction. Thanks a bunch though for responding!

Best, John

Buza umbuzo

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