Hmmm... now I'm talking to myself...

Ok.  I've solved it.  There are other applications with this problem,
it's just that the ones I was trying didn't have any action associated
with the right-click so they worked fine.  This means it isn't a problem
with firefox.

It looks like the newer XOrg is pickier about the mouse config in
xorg.conf.  My mouse says IntelliMouse on the bottom but it seems it is
really an IntelliMouse Explorer.  The "Protocol" setting was "IMPS/2"
which worked in older versions of X.  Now I have "Protocol" set to
"auto" and it looks like everything is working again.

That was fun.


On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 10:07 -0400, David M. Cooke wrote:
> I'm having an odd problem in Firefox.  I've been googling for a while
> but can't find any other mention of this problem.
> 
> I'm using SL4.1 and firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1 and a MS Intellimouse optical
> mouse.
> 
> When I'm viewing a web page the mouse scroll wheel scrolls down the page
> just fine.  Scrolling up the page does not work correctly. When I try it
> acts as if I've pressed both the right mouse button and the middle mouse
> button; so I get a pop up menu and an attempt to load an URL consisting
> of whatever my last X selection was (sometimes it will actually scroll
> up too!).
> 
> All other applications I've tried so far work fine.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this?  Any ideas what is causing it or how
> to fix it?
> 
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