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    Scrolling in Firefox with V6V touchpad

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Muaddib, Apr 29, 2005.

  1. Muaddib

    Muaddib Notebook Consultant

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    Hi;
    Anyone knows how to use (or to make it work) the scrolling area in V6V touchpad with Firefox?
    Works with ev'ry soft, but Ffx.

    Cya.

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    Muaddib, Apr 29, 2005
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  2. PROPortable

    PROPortable Company Representative

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    isn't going to work unless you come up with a hack..

    Thanks,
    Justin
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    PROPortable, Apr 29, 2005
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  3. dt34

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    why wouldn't it work? i find that rather strange....i have my S5N touchpad set up (asus touchpad utility) so that i can scroll from the right edge of the touchpad for any program that needs scrolling.....interesting....
     
    dt34, Apr 29, 2005
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  4. smilepak

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    The scroll thing should work by default on all applications. I doubt the touch pad technology on the V6 is much differnt thatn the Z71v.

    It is working fine for me in all applications I am using now. I didn't even install the touchpad driver. The one that came default with windows is working for me.

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    OK, this is kind of weird. I can't scroll in Firefox using the touchpad scroll zone -- I get the little scroll icon under my cursor, but it doesn't move -- but I can scroll on the regular part of the touchpad. Tap and drag up or down, just like you would on the scroll zone, but not in the scroll zone. Does this just work on my W3V, or does it work for everybody?
     
    barong, Apr 30, 2005
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    This is not a problem with your touchpad, but with some bizarre Synaptics driver incompatibility with Firefox. See this thread:

    http://www.notebookreview.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8368&SearchTerms=synaptics,firefox

    I tried downloading the old driver v7.5.7, but it didn't work for me -- just disabled the scroll feature *everywhere*. [ :(!]

    Since this is a very well known (and well complained about) problem, let's hope synaptics does something about it soon!
     
    barong, Apr 30, 2005
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    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by barong
     
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  8. Muaddib

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    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by barong
     
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  9. ummqwerty

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    Did you ever find a solution to this problem?
     
    ummqwerty, Dec 12, 2007
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  10. D3X

    D3X the robo know it all

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    Just update to new Synaptics driver at www.synaptics.com This was a very old problem that happened only with the old drivers.
     
    D3X, Dec 12, 2007
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