Spacebar has ceased to cause the page being viewed to scroll down.
Used to work. Just stopped?

Thoughts anyone?

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On 2006-01-21, Nho Whei <NoWEi@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Spacebar has ceased to cause the page being viewed to scroll down.
> Used to work. Just stopped?
>
> Thoughts anyone?

Interesting. For me, the space bar works to scroll a page fine in FF-1.5,
but it stopped working as "scroll page" in Thunderbird when I updated to v1.
5.

I suspect there's a prefs.js tweak to fix this, but what it might be is
not obvious.

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John (john@os2.dhs.org)

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John Thompson wrote:
> On 2006-01-21, Nho Whei <NoWEi@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>
> Interesting. For me, the space bar works to scroll a page fine in FF-1.5,
> but it stopped working as "scroll page" in Thunderbird when I updated to v
1.5.
>
> I suspect there's a prefs.js tweak to fix this, but what it might be is
> not obvious.
>

Spacebar moves me down the page in both FF and TB from here.

Lee

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Nho Whei wrote:
> Spacebar has ceased to cause the page being viewed to scroll down.
> Used to work. Just stopped?
>
> Thoughts anyone?

First thing to check is any extensions or themes you may have recently
installed or updated. also any other memory-resident programs.  I'm
playing around with an odd problem with SeaMonkey that /seems/ to be
caused by some interaction with Norton Anti Virus. Not sure yet but it
does point to the fact that today's systems are so complex that it's
just not fair to assume anything nor to blame such problems immediately
on one system component but it the application (Firefox), the OS, or
some one of the other multitudinous "background" processes.

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On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:48:13 +1300, Nho Whei <NoWEi@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Spacebar has ceased to cause the page being viewed to scroll down.
>Used to work. Just stopped?
>
>Thoughts anyone?

Well, after a further googleprowl, I disabled:
Option/Advanced/Allow text to be selected with the keyboard.

Fixed !  Spacebar now doing what it otta.

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On 2006-01-22, Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net> wrote:

> Nho Whei wrote: 
>
> First thing to check is any extensions or themes you may have recently
> installed or updated. also any other memory-resident programs.  I'm
> playing around with an odd problem with SeaMonkey that /seems/ to be
> caused by some interaction with Norton Anti Virus. Not sure yet but it
> does point to the fact that today's systems are so complex that it's
> just not fair to assume anything nor to blame such problems immediately
> on one system component but it the application (Firefox), the OS, or
> some one of the other multitudinous "background" processes.

I'm running linux, so there's no anti-virus resident to muck things up. I
did start TB-1.5 up in safe mode, and the space bar worked properly to
advance a screen. This suggests that an extension may be causing the
problem for me at least. Now I just have to track down the culprit...

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John (john@os2.dhs.org)

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