How to Change the Speed of Mousewheel Scrolling in Firefox
By default, one turn of the mouse wheel scrolls only a few lines at a time.
Fortunately, there’s a fairly easy way to adjust Firefox’s scroll speed.
Even better, there’s a keyboard shortcut that can slow it down again for “precision” scrolling.
Here’s how to change the default scroll speed:
Open Firefox, then type about:config in the address bar and hit Enter.
In the Filter box, type mousewheel.withnokey.
Right-click mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines and then click Toggle.
This should set the value to False.
Right-click mousewheel.withnokey.numlines and then click Modify.
Bump the value to 6 or so, click OK, and then switch to another tab to see if you like the scroll speed.
(You don’t have to restart Firefox every time you make a change.)
If not, experiment a bit until you find a number you like.
I’ve set mine to 8, though there are times when I want–or even need–the option of scrolling more slowly. Precision Scrolling Solution: Hold down the Alt key. That drops Firefox back to line-at-a-time scrolling until you release the key.
Credit for this killer tip belongs to : Lifehacker
Interesting find, however my Trust wireless laser mouse has a driver to adjust the scroll action and that seems to work as per those settings within firefox.
So it looks like my settings have been changed because of the mouse driver being installed to change the mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines value to True, so it gets its settings from there.
If you want to read this message somewhat smaller in Fx then hold Ctrl and at the same time turn the mouse-wheel towards you, want to read it larger then hold Ctrl down and at the same time turn the mouse-wheel in the opposite direction, I give this one without Lifehacker,
Go to the top or bottom of a page with a single middle mouse button click.
Type about:config in the address bar and hit enter.
In the filter list of the about:config window enter the following:
middlemouse.scrollbarPosition
Right click the entry that comes up in the window and click toggle to change the value to true
Restart Firefox. Then middle click anywhere in the scroll bar area and the page/scrollbar instantly jumps to where you click. Top, bottom, middle or anywhere you desire.
Turn off that little pop up in the bottom right of the screen that pops up every time a download is finished saying “all downloads are complete”
Type about:config in the address bar and hit enter. In the filter list of the about:config window enter the following:
browser.download.manager.showalertoncomplete
Right click the entry that comes up in the window and toggle to change the value to false
Mozilla Labs has unveiled the beta of a new application called Prism 1.0
that takes the Internet off your browser and plants it onto your desktop.
Prism is both a useful Firefox extension and a desktop app.
Here is a sample of using the Prism Firefox extension:
(Using MySharedFiles as the example)
