[rawcatslyentist]

Mouse maybe? They do expire.

[ShadowAce]

[oh8eleven]

when I pull up certain webpages the wheel scrolling goes dormant
Dirty mouse. Look at the mouse bottom and if you have an older "track ball" type, gently remove it and clean the ball and housing.
Even if mouse is optical, check bottom for lint/dirt build up.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Is FF the only browser this happens to? Try Chrome or IE. if they work fine then upgrade or re-install FF.

[ken in texas]

In the tools/options page I have it set up for scrolling pages with the mouse wheel.

Where do you specify that? I'm on FF 16.0.2 and the only options that seem to be mouse related pertain to autoscrolling, smooth scrolling, and hardware acceleration.

Are you running Windows? The control panel applet for the mouse has options for the scroll wheel.

[TomGuy]

What version of FF?

Any recent upgrades to FF or to the mouse?

Could be a problem with gestures.

I have had similar problems with some versions of FF.

FF’s rapid release insanity causes as many new problems as it fixes old ones.

A simple restart of FF or a computer reboot might resolve the problem.

[drbuzzard]

I’ve been finding that Firefox has been gumming up ridiculously lately so I just up and switched to Chrome. It just works better.

[RideForever]

Browsers support multiple frames, or windows within the overall page. You sometimes have to click in the frame you wish to scroll to make it current, and then your mouse will work fine.

[pabianice]

Foxfire keeps crashing my PC. But it’s still better than that mutt, IE. Both suck, really.

[The Great RJ]

Try going back to a reset point in Windows before the problem started and see if that fixes things. If not I would suspect a mouse problem. Check to see if there are updated drivers for your mouse. Lastly try a registry cleaner like CCleaner sometimes there is just some left over crud that messes up things.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I have found that Firefox is not 100% compatible with all websites out there. Some had control buttons or forms that would work in IE but not Firefox. Many times that gets fixed with a future update.

[jurroppi1]

If you use a logitech mouse, you may need to install an add on called “SmoothWheel” or “Yet Another Smooth Scrolling”. I’ve dealt with a lot of lagginess from FF and logitech mice WRT scroll wheels. Try SmoothWheel first and see if it helps.

[GeronL]

no problem with FF here on my Linux

[tomkat]

Check to see if it's happening only while the wheel thingy up top is showing you that a page is loading/reloading.

My wheel will sometimes fail to respond w/ the above, but returns to normal when the reload is complete .. no reboot necessary.

/.02

[Vinnie]

I had trouble scrolling yesterday at 2 different sites.
First problem, I could start scrolling, the page would jump back up to the top.
nothing could I do would let me read page 2,3,etc.
that was on my iPad using Safari.

Later I was paying bills on my iMac desktop using FF and marble mouse.
Couldn’t page down, same problem as earlier on the iPad. Jumped back to the top page.

I’ve never seen that trouble before and since it happened on 2 completely different machines running 2 different browsers at 2 different sites..??