Horrid Safari Scroll Bug

[jeb1138]

Has anybody else with a scroll mouse experienced this?

Go to a page that is long enough to scroll (like this one probably), go to the middle of the page and scroll up while physically moving the mouse forward. It will scroll down very fast! You have to scroll relatively quickly and move your mouse at a decent pace as well, but not all that fast. Make sure you stay within the window and don't hit the title bar or status bar or any text input boxes. Try it several times rapidly in succession. This happens to me frequently while I'm scrolling and just happen to slide my mouse forward a bit at the same time and it is rather annoying.

I'm pretty sure that this isn't just a problem with my computer, because it doesn't happen in OmniWeb, Explorer or any other application. I've also tried it with two different scroll mice -- a Logitech MX700 and an MS Intellimouse Optical.

Can anybody else out there confirm that this happens for them as well?

[twister]

Nope don't see it. But i have spent the past 5 minutes looking like an idiot scrolling up and down and up and down.

Twister

[jeb1138]

Originally posted by twister
Nope don't see it. But i have spent the past 5 minutes looking like an idiot scrolling up and down and up and down.

Twister

LOL!!!! OK thanks for trying it out for me though Twister. That's really weird -- I can't believe it's just my computer... I'll have to try trashing all my Safari preferences again I guess. I wonder if some system tweak I've done could be affecting it... but it's weird that it would only affect Safari though.

Thanks for trying!

[jeb1138]

Oh yeah -- what mouse do you have? Thanks.

[twister]

a cheap gateway mouse. configured with USB overdrive X

[Ricky]

Does it with mine, too. Wacom Graphire with the little plastic mouse on it. It might help to know that the Wacom tablets have drivers that Wacom wrote, though. The tablet doesn't work on its own. (i.e. base OS X configuration)

[jeb1138]

Hmm...

OK thanks twister.

Originally posted by Ricky
Does it with mine, too. Wacom Graphire with the little plastic mouse on it. It might help to know that the Wacom tablets have drivers that Wacom wrote, though. The tablet doesn't work on its own. (i.e. base OS X configuration)

So it does happen to other people! Hooray! Er.. I mean.. that's too bad.

Ricky, does it do it in any other app or just safari? Thanks for the help.

So so far we know it happens with a Logitech MX700, an MS Intellimouse Optical and a Wacom Graphire with the little plastic mouse, and not with a cheap Gateway mouse.

Anybody else have or not have this issue with their mouse & Safari?

[Sogni]

I have a Wacom Graphire 2 with mouse, no problems here...