Scrolling does not work in Safari

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Scrolling does not work in Safari

I am using Safari 4.0.5 and I cannot use the mouse scrollwheel to scroll pages, scrolling works fine in any other program ( including other browsers ) but in Safari it does not seem to work.

I have tried to update my drivers for the mouse, which is by the way a standard Dell mouse, but that has not helped either.

Tried to play around with the settings for the mousewheel but that did not change anything either.

Anyone ?

Dell, Windows XP Pro

Posted on Apr 6, 2010 2:10 AM

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Answer 1

Apr 6, 2010 2:06 PM in response to PhDJ

Hi,

From Safar's main menu click Edit/Preferences.

Click Reset Safari. Relaunch Safari and see if that made a difference. If not, go back to Edit/Preferences and click: Empty Cache.

Also, if you have any third party scroll enhancing softwware installed, that could be the problem.

Carolyn 🙂

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PhDJ Author

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Apr 6, 2010 11:08 PM in response to Carolyn Samit

Hi Carolyn,

thanks for your reply but I am sorry to say none of it helped.

I do not have any third party software installed for the scrolling either.

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Apr 7, 2010 11:19 PM in response to PhDJ

After Googling for some time, I found the problem had something to do with the "Dell Mouse Suite" that came with the mouse, after uninstalling that scrolling works in Safari, off course I lost all the fancy features of my mouse, but I was not really using them anyway, funny that it does not seem work together with Safari.

I read somewhere that installing the Microsoft Intellipoint software should do the trick.

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Answer 4

Apr 8, 2010 1:38 AM in response to PhDJ

Glad you found the answer. No idea why the drivers would be incompatible with Safari but apparently that was the glitch.

🙂

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