From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: For those of us with hands glued to the standard typing position, the inability of firefox to scroll vi-style is a constant irritation. The necessity to lift the hand over to the unnatural arrow keys, or god forbid, the mouse, is just burdensome. Why can't firefox obey the standard convention? - move down with the right index finger, up with the middle finger, left by reaching left, and right with the third finger? Scroll up a full page by reaching up to u, and down with the thumb. It turns out to be fairly simple to teach firefox to do this, moreover without affecting its other "normal" behaviour, so the question remains - why isn't this done standardly? I don't know that answer. It is merely necessary to add these definitions to the file, platformHTMLBindings.xml <handler event="keypress" key="h" command="cmd_scrollLeft"/> <handler event="keypress" key="j" command="cmd_scrollLineDown"/> <handler event="keypress" key="k" command="cmd_scrollLineUp"/> <handler event="keypress" key="l" command="cmd_scrollRight"/> <handler event="keypress" key="u" command="cmd_scrollPageUp" /> However, this file is well concealed in /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/chrome/toolkit.jar which is a zipped bunch of files. This must be unzipped, the file edited, and the package rezipped. Please add these lines, officially, so this local modification isn't necessary. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-1.0.7-1.1.fc4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. In firefox, try to scroll, using the keyboard. 2. 3. Actual Results: No scrolling. Expected Results: I would prefer firefox to obey normal conventions. Additional info:
Duplicate of #173698?
Firefox's scrolling has gottem much worse in Fedora Core 5. There's been no response to my suggestion - I can live with that - I simply edit the bindings myself. But the edits suggested above now don't work any more, as they used to. In the platformHTMLBindings.xml file, the commands cmd_scrollLineDown and cmd_scrollLineDown no longer scroll the window contents. Instead they move an invisible cursor down or up by one line, so that after many keypresses to reach an extremity the text begins to move. These commands have forgotten the meaning of "scroll". The same problem occurs with the up and down arrow keys - they don't scroll either (because they are bound to the same defective commands). Something is seriously hosed.
I've just done yum update and firefox is now Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060504 Fedora/1.5.0.3-1.1.fc5 Firefox/1.5.0.3 pango-text I'm sad to observe that it is still braindead WRT scrolling. The up and down arrows don't scroll, but move an invisible cursor. There's no way to actually scroll, except with the mouse roller wheel, and that's just too uncomfortable for extended use.
Hi, sorry for the delay in responding. This was reported upstream at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83441 and resolved WONTFIX a long while ago. I don't want to deviate from upstream, so going to close this WONTFIX, too. Feel free to push this upstream, though, if you feel strongly about it.