Firefox, BlueGriffon and OS X Lion
By glazou on Friday 22 July 2011, 06:43 - Mozilla - Permalink
One thing I immediately missed under OS X Lion was the ability to scroll to the top or bottom of a document with three fingers. Since I browse a lot of long documents, for instance W3C specs, I really needed it back. Open OS X Preferences, show the trackpad panel, switch to the last tab, and select "4 fingers" for the Mission Control and Exposé trackpad shortcuts. Then your usual three-fingers scrolling gestures still work in Firefox.
Far beyond that, I have a question related to the new NSDocument features if you're a mac Mozillian: how could I enable the versioning and autosave features in BlueGriffon?
Note: I tried switching to the new scrolling beheviour of Lion. I really tried. Just could not. I switched back to the Snow Leopard behaviour unchecking the first checkbox in the second tab of the trackpad preferences panel...
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I switched it back too. Just impossible to use with a mouse or trackpad.
IMHO those devices should use the old scrolling. Touch screens are a different use case.
After following your suggestion my three-finger up/down swipes still don't go to home/end!
Jonathan: You need to use Firefox, not Safari
@Pete
Daniel's instructions do not work for me either. Far worse: Switching back and forward with three fingers is broken as well which is *really* annoying. The pains of early adopters. *sigh*
@Pete
I am using the latest Aurora build.
@Erunno
I had that too but found that changing the gesture (in Trackpad) for "Swipe between pages" from "Scroll left or right with two fingers" to "Swipe left or right with three fingers" fixed this in Firefox.
Note: Daniel, I was also struggling with the new scrolling behavior. But after a couple of days (not minutes or hours, and that's new for Apple) I managed to work with it. I invested the time because I realized that otherwise the concepts of Launchpad and Mission Control won't work. One automatically moves the fingers in the same direction but is used to scroll the window content into the other direction.
@Jonathan
Thanks. That also fixed the missing back/forward behavior in a bunch of other applications (Finder, iTunes, etc.). Still no luck with page up/down though.