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Autoscrolling is disabling itself on dualboot

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I have dualboot windows xp and ubuntu, and I use the same FF profile for both systems. The problem is that everytime after using FF under windows the autoscrolling is turned off in linux... its detail but its annoying to turn on autoscrolling everytime i want use FF in linux - is there some way how to solve that?

I have dualboot windows xp and ubuntu, and I use the same FF profile for both systems. The problem is that everytime after using FF under windows the autoscrolling is turned off in linux... its detail but its annoying to turn on autoscrolling everytime i want use FF in linux - is there some way how to solve that?

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has not helped... autoscrolling is disabling also in safe mode(with disabled plugins), and user.js doesnt exist (so it shouldnt cause problems)

waldir trɔe

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Are you having the problems with the setting in Edit > Preferences > Advanced > General: Browsing: "Use autoscrolling" or with clicking with the middle mouse button to enter auto scrolling?

See also the middlemouse prefs in http://kb.mozillazine.org/Category:Preferences

It is possible that Ubuntu has changed some settings in its Firefox version.
You can try the regular Firefox version from http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all.html to see if that works.

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problem is with settings - its turning off, not with autoscrolling itself...

I've tried the "regular version" (uninstalling firefox and its ubuntu support packages and then using the downloaded one) - it didn't work

Thanks for the pref pages, I tried to compare prefs.js after using in windows and linux - everytime after using FF in windows one line (user_pref("general.autoScroll", true); ) is deleted. But still I dont know why its being deleted and I dont understand why the autoscrolling is everytime turned on in windows although the setting is deleted... Any ideas?

I think I will write some application for launching FF wich will everytime add that line to prefs.js

Anyway thanks for help

/edit solved by using c++ script

waldir trɔe