AutoScroll Extension for Phoenix and MozillaTuesday December 17th, 2002psykotik wrote in to tell us that skidooer, a regular at the Something Awful Forums, has written an AutoScroll extension for Phoenix and other Mozilla-based browsers. The extension works much like the AutoScroll feature found in several Windows applications, such as Internet Explorer: you click your mouse wheel and then move your mouse up or down to scroll the page. Moving further away from or closer to the point where you clicked the mouse wheel accelerates or decelerates the scrolling. You can try the first release of AutoScroll for yourself but remember that it does have bugs (the most noticeable of which is the lack of a special mouse cursor). There's also no way to uninstall the add-on at the moment. skidooer has only tested AutoScroll in Phoenix on Windows though we were also able to get it working in the Windows versions of Mozilla and Netscape 7.01. More information about the extension can be found in a thread in the Phoenix Extensions forum. UPDATE! Subsequent updates to AutoScroll will appear at autoscroll.mozdev.org. If the people over at AOL/TW ever put support for Microsoft's Intellimouse Explorer that's in the recently released Mozilla 1.3a in Netscape 7.01, the addition of AutoScroll would be fabulous. Especially if the bugs in it are fixed. Keep up the good work. Intellimouse support on Windows has been in for a couple of weeks now. Interesting discovery... If you install mouse gesture extension first and then isntall AutoScroll extension, you will see the both extensions work properly with mouse cursor!!^^.. When it works, I like it. I just seems to stop working randomly though. I have to keep restarting Phoenix to get it working again. I look forward to the new version with bug fixes. Will this still work when setting middle mouse button to open in a new window or tab?. I mean if I middle click on a link it would open in new window/tab. If I middle click elsewhere it would autoscrollÉ. If not, this may be a great improvement!. FizzillaMach/2002121607 crashes at nsInstallFile::CreateAllFolders during installation of this XPI. (See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186088) That is a must for viewing big pictures in Mozilla, the pictures that require both sideways and vertical scrolling. works for me in 98me just fine, havent tried it in linux yet, RedHat or Mandrake ..? is there the possability? |