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When I use windows explorer, it stops paging down and scrolls to my mouse pointer

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Skopi
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I have a family blog. I click on the button which lets me choose pictures to upload. (and we take a lot of pics) It brings me a windows explorer window (File Upload) and I go to the folder where my pictures are. I click on the scroll bar (near the bottom but note the arrow) so that it pages down. I click again. It scrolls down another page. I click again. It scrolls down another page. I click again and suddenly it decides to take me through many many pages of pictures to where my mouse pointer was located. This may be a purposeful behavior. I could train myself to use PgDn and PgUp buttons instead of mouse, but prefer my mouse. I have not run across this in other browsers so don't think it is a windows or mouse setting, but could be wrong.

I have a family blog. I click on the button which lets me choose pictures to upload. (and we take a lot of pics) It brings me a windows explorer window (File Upload) and I go to the folder where my pictures are. I click on the scroll bar (near the bottom but note the arrow) so that it pages down. I click again. It scrolls down another page. I click again. It scrolls down another page. I click again and suddenly it decides to take me through many many pages of pictures to where my mouse pointer was located. This may be a purposeful behavior. I could train myself to use PgDn and PgUp buttons instead of mouse, but prefer my mouse. I have not run across this in other browsers so don't think it is a windows or mouse setting, but could be wrong.

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FredMcD
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Are you using Windows Explorer or Firefox?

If you know the name of the file you want, try entering it one letter at a time in the file box. This should filter the list.

Skopi
Skopi Question owner
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FIrefox, of course. It is when you click on open file to get items to post on the blog. It brings up a windows explorer kind of screen.

Also, I am browsing through pictures to post so I can't narrow by name.

It is just a weird, irritating behavior. I think it is Firefox and not a windows setting or a mouse setting, but could be wrong.

FredMcD
FredMcD
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The list can be filtered by name, date, type of file . . . . .

What you can do is this; Use a viewing program outside Firefox. When you find something you want, copy the path+name, then paste it to the input window.

Go to the Mozilla Add-ons Web Page {web link} (There’s a lot of good stuff here) and search for a viewing program.

Here are some;

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/perfect-view/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/slide-show-viewer/

Skopi
Skopi Question owner
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Yes, I could obviously work a lot harder to do this. Instead I prefer to use the explorer-type window that Firefox brings up to its full extent.

I just want to know if anyone has seen this strange behavior and if there is a setting I can do to change it.