{"id":4934,"date":"2008-04-04T11:56:43","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T10:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-disable-automatic-scrolling-in-firefox\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:32:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:32:34","slug":"how-to-disable-automatic-scrolling-in-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-disable-automatic-scrolling-in-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"How to: Disable automatic scrolling in Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/scroll.jpg\" alt=\"Disable automatic scrolling in Firefox\" align=\"left\" \/>I use <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/top-10-mouse-wheel-tips-in-firefox\/\">middle click<\/a> a lot in Firefox: to open links in the background, to close tabs, to open new ones&#8230; This means that more often not I accidentally middle click on a blank area of the webpage, meaning I enable the browser&#8217;s automatic scroll feature and start moving up and down the page.<\/p>\n<p>While I understand that Firefox just wants to make my browsing more comfortable, I find this scrolling quite annoying. This is why I was happy to see there&#8217;s actually a way to disable the automatic scroll feature.<\/p>\n<p>You only have to open the browser&#8217;s configuration settings (<em>Tools &gt; Options)<\/em> , go to the <em>Advanced<\/em> section and then, in the <em>General<\/em> tab, remove the tick from &#8220;Use autoscrolling&#8221;. It&#8217;s as easy as that! The autoscroll feature will be gone and you won&#8217;t enable it by mistake anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use middle click a lot in Firefox: to open links in the background, to close tabs, to open new ones&#8230; This means that more often not I accidentally middle click on a blank area of the webpage, meaning I enable the browser&#8217;s automatic scroll feature and start moving up and down the page. While &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-disable-automatic-scrolling-in-firefox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to: Disable automatic scrolling in Firefox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-4934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336223,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934\/revisions\/336223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4934"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=4934"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=4934"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=4934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}