I was noticing for some reason that my mouse was not allowing me to scroll properly within the Cometbird browser and was only advancing one line at a time rather than one page at a time which I have set. I like a lot about Cometbird so far except I wasn’t able to find an answer for my problem here on the forum so I hope this isn’t an issue that has been otherwise addressed.
I thought I had found the answer when I disabled the UI enhancement because that seemed to solve the problem, but that wasn’t satisfactory because I really like the translator and that goes away when I do that. I had tried this after disabling the smooth scrolling option in the Tools menu which had no effect although I thought that it should.
So, because I wanted to keep the UI enabled and fix the problem I looked in the about:config menu. To my surprise, despite deselecting the smooth scrolling option from Options, general.smoothScroll still had a value of true and once I changed that… no more problem.
I don’t know if this is an issue that is maybe selective to a certain OS over others, but I am running on Vista 64 which is no surprise to me. I can’t help but feel that someone at Microsoft was spiking the coffee and water coolers when they were designing Vista in the first place and they all started smoking crack once they got to the 64 bit version.
Either way, I am liking this browser so far and it is quite an improvement over Firefox which seemed to get slower with each passing day.
Alright, let’s see if I understood you: you did could solve the problem you had. Is that correct?
Look, I was typin’ a answer to you when I found this excellent article, well explained (once you’re done reading that page, don’t forget to click on Continued…).
I’ll definitely give that a look. I did manage to get the issue fixed for the reason that it seems the setting wasn’t changing itself properly when accessed via the Advanced tab in Options.
The link you gave looks pretty nice so far because I actually just learned of the about:config options not so long ago. Nice to have all that information on a page rather than finding things out by trial and error lol. Seems a little bit odd to me though that it is possible to make all these sorts of changes yet in all this time they haven’t properly added them to the UI.
I was mostly just intending to post my findings about this problem to know if there is some reason the settings I changed from the UI weren’t being made properly in the about:config as I’m thinking it should have been for that particular option. I appreciate the added information though.
I’m gonna reply some of your questions while I comment about some of your words.
I disabled the UI enhancement because that seemed to solve the problem
As far as I know, the webpage scrolling has nothing to do with the Browser UI Enhancement add-on (I may be wrong). The features of this add-on are the ones with the browser.enhancement prefix at the about:config page.
I actually just learned of the about:config options not so long ago.
The about:config page is not recommended for regular users. The access and the modifications of that page is only recommended for advanced users, as you could make the we browser unstable. You have to search for information in the web about a specific about:config page’s option before doing a change to it.
I don’t know if this is an issue that is maybe selective to a certain OS over others, but I am running on Vista 64 which is no surprise to me.
I run CometBird on Windows XP SP3 operating system, so I can’t even tell if the problem you had is an OS-related issue rather than a web browser related issue. I’ve never had that trouble so far, so it could even be a specific issue when CB runs on WOW64. Or it may be a bug in the web browser itself. For example, I found a bug in a previous version of CometBird. And that was a really strange bug, because while it was present somehow in some browser/OS configurations, it was not present in others. That bug is now apparently fixed (I say apparently because now the web browser works fine on my XP SP3, but I’m not quite sure about the same web browser on other Windows OSes — ME, 2000, Server 2003, XP 64 bits, Vista, Vista 64, Server 2008, Seven and Seven 64 bits). This is only my opinion though, I’m not saying things should be this way, of course.
