{"id":3930,"date":"2016-05-19T05:12:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T10:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=3930"},"modified":"2021-06-07T15:19:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T20:19:36","slug":"firefox-scrollbars-jumping-or-warping-instead-of-scrolling-when-clicked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/19\/firefox-scrollbars-jumping-or-warping-instead-of-scrolling-when-clicked\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox scrollbars &#8220;Jumping&#8221; or &#8220;Warping&#8221; instead of scrolling when clicked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:431,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/support.mozilla.org\\\/en-US\\\/questions\\\/1120904&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260207115035\\\/https:\\\/\\\/support.mozilla.org\\\/en-US\\\/questions\\\/1120904&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 11:04:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 11:56:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 16:29:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 18:33:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 18:33:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Recently, the scrollbar behavior of my Firefox web browser changed. \u00a0 The &#8220;old&#8221; (and expected\/desired) behavior is that if you click in the scrollbar area anywhere below the thumb, the thumb moves down one page.<\/p>\n<p>However, the new behavior is that a normal click will &#8220;Warp&#8221; the thumb directly to the clicked location, scrolling the webpage a whole lot farther than desired. \u00a0 (it used to be that a right-click would do the &#8220;warp&#8221;, which is a useful feature, not not necessarily one I want to be the default).<\/p>\n<p>I found the answer here: <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/questions\/1120904\">https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/questions\/1120904 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The change in behavior is caused by gtk 3.0 and to fix it on Ubuntu Linux, I had to:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>create ~\/.config\/gtk-3.0\/settings.ini<\/p>\n<p>with contents:<\/p>\n<p>[Settings]<\/p>\n<p>gtk-primary-button-warps-slider = false<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the scrollbar behavior of my Firefox web browser changed. \u00a0 The &#8220;old&#8221; (and expected\/desired) behavior is that if you click in the scrollbar area anywhere below the thumb, the thumb moves down one page. However, the new behavior is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/19\/firefox-scrollbars-jumping-or-warping-instead-of-scrolling-when-clicked\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3933,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions\/3933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}