bookmarks - won't scroll
John Smith
a problem. The bookmarks won't scroll. I now have lost the ability
to access the bookmarks that are beyond the screen.
It used to be that when I moved the cursor to the down triangle, I
was able to scroll down. Now, nothing happens. And Firefox 3.5.1
doesn't respond to mouse wheel.
Any cure? Thanks.
David McRitchie
I expect that the cause of the problem would be an extension or theme
or your own chrome styling. I don't like that small small triangle for
scrolling and can't imagine that anybody prefers it to real scrollbars.
I would suggest installing the "Stylish" extension
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108
and if you want to skip a lot of aggravation install and stick with 0.5.9
Then install
Scrollbar Menu | userstyles.org -- http://userstyles.org/styles/52
Scrollbar Context Menu | userstyles.org -- http://userstyles.org/styles/54
I increased the height to 700 on style 52, and to 650 on Scrollbar Context Menu (style 54).
" InspectorWidget" may cause problems with ghost images of menus appearing
that cannot be scrolled or made to disappear, so if you have Inspector Widget keep
it disabled except for when needed.
Do report back whether it solves the problem or not or if you find actual cause of problem.
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HTH,
David McRitchie, extensions I use are briefly documented on my site
Firefox Custom: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm
Ron Hunter
One obvious one. Edit your bookmarks file so that scrolling isn't
necessary. You can make use of folders to organize your bookmarks into
cascading menus, which is much easier to handle, and if you have a group
that is long enough to scroll, it probably needs organizing.
David McRitchie
He probably does organize into folders, and it still would have the problem.
effdee
> "John Smith" ...
>> I just updated to the latest Firebox (3.5.1) and immediately found a
>> problem. The bookmarks won't scroll. I now have lost the ability to
>> access the bookmarks that are beyond the screen.
>>
>> It used to be that when I moved the cursor to the down triangle, I was
>> able to scroll down. Now, nothing happens. And Firefox 3.5.1 doesn't
>> respond to mouse wheel. Any cure? Thanks.
>
> I expect that the cause of the problem would be an extension or theme
> or your own chrome styling. I don't like that small small triangle for
> scrolling and can't imagine that anybody prefers it to real scrollbars.
>
> I would suggest installing the "Stylish" extension
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108
> and if you want to skip a lot of aggravation install and stick with
> 0.5.9
> Then install Scrollbar Menu | userstyles.org --
> http://userstyles.org/styles/52
> Scrollbar Context Menu | userstyles.org --
> http://userstyles.org/styles/54
>
So how do I configure it?
effdee
David McRitchie
Not all extensions have options, the old Stylish just put the stylish
manager in there making for three ways to invoke use. The new one
that you installed is not very pleasant but does work. The new stylish
puts that third option on the add-ons (ugh) so when you go to Tools,
addons, you often pull up styles, instead of extensions (double ugh!).
You can still get to the Stylish Manager old or new through toolbar button
or through status bar button.
Click on the the link provided for style 52 (Scrollbar Menu)
then click on the button to install in Stylish, once you see
the code in stylish you can test it, but the important thing
is to save it with the button at the bottom.
Then do the same for style 54 (Scrollbar Context Menu)
Read the descriptions, comments and Developer's comments
for extensions you install, Same for Styles that get used by Stylish.
I have my own notes on the "Stylish" Extension, see
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm#stylish
and for my notes on Styles, see
http://kb.mozillazine.org/User:Dmcritchie
The latest Stylish does not have an [!important] button, if you know
about adding !important to the css code involved suggest you do it.
For those you can replace the ";" with " !important;" where missing,
and while it may work for those, I don't think that is the proper way of
going about it.
John Smith
I have 39 folders and probably twice as many bookmarks in the root
level.
What I would like to find out is why this happens and how to solve
the problem, not getting around the problem. I did not have this
problem before updating to the newest version.
David McRitchie
> level.
>
> What I would like to find out is why this happens and how to solve
> the problem, not getting around the problem. I did not have this
> problem before updating to the newest version.
Just as I said, you probably had that already, so that method would
be useless to you. But getting around a problem or providing a
better solution than what you had is a lot of what goes on here.
Things change, and the default scrolling in menus stinks. But
the problem is probably an extension or theme that you have and
Mozilla is only responsible for Firefox itself (with no warranty).
Did you look at my previous reply in this thread about installing
Stylish and a couple of styles -- I see now it was someone else who
replied to me on that and not you. // David
John Smith
and "uninstall" buttons are gray out. Not sure what's going on
there. I have never used theme. Never change it.
There are four extensions. Two were already disabled. I disabled
the third one (downthemall) and left Java Quick Starter 1.0
running. I figured that one should be OK.
I have never used styling.
Three hours after the change with no reboot, the scrolling
suddenly came back to life. This is not conclusive but it seems
downthemall is the culprit.
The Real Bev
AAARRRGGGHHH. That means you have to remember which category you put a
bookmark in. I HATE hierarchical trees, especially those NOT designed by me.
I have about 4,000 bookmarks, do you suppose that's too many? I use
bookmarks.html for a home page and can easily search for what I want.
Some bookmarks are organized, most are just tacked on at the end.
Using the 'bookmarks' menu is vastly inferior, even when it has a scrollbar.
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David McRitchie
> bookmark in. I HATE hierarchical trees, especially those NOT designed by me.
> I have about 4,000 bookmarks, do you suppose that's too many? I use
> bookmarks.html for a home page and can easily search for what I want.
>
> Some bookmarks are organized, most are just tacked on at the end.
>
> Using the 'bookmarks' menu is vastly inferior, even when it has a scrollbar.
Bookmarks in version 3 were redone there are three major folders
Bookmarks Toolbar
Bookmarks Menu
Unsorted Bookmarks
Only bookmarks Menu shows up on the Bookmarks menu
New bookmarks that you do not categorize into folders are by
default put into the Unsorted Bookmarks, so if you do not categorize
you bookmarks into tree that might be why you see only a few bookmarks,
those that used to be at the end of your bookmarks before version 3.
If you watch the video by Mike Beltzer it tells about the awesome bar
and how you can choose parts of a url or title or tags and see a
selection of choices based on your usage from bookmarks and history.
http://people.mozilla.com/~beltzner/overview-of-firefox3.swf
You an do the same from sidebar search bar for the history sidebar
(Ctrl+H), and from the bookmarks sidebar (Ctrl+B) containing all of your
bookmarks, which is a lot better than trying to look at the Bookmarks menu
even if you do use a style to add the scrollbar there..