On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 17:15 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > >> If I click on the downward arrow > >> the view starts going down the page > >> and there is no way of stopping it > >> until the slide control has reached the bottom. > > > > Is this a slow scroll? Perhaps you have an add-on that's doing it (IIRC > > there are add-ons for slow scrolling). As always with FF problems, try > > running with add-ons disabled before looking for anything else. Also, FF > > is a Gnome (GTK) app on Linux. > > Thanks for the suggestion. > I'm going through my add-ons disabling one at a time ... A binary search is more efficient (depending on how many you have). Restart FF with no addons ("firefox -safe-mode"). If that still has the problem, enable half the add-ons, if it still fails enable half the remainder, otherwise disable half the ones you enabled, etc. etc. You get the idea. poc