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10.5: Scroll background windows via the mouse System 10.5
I just noticed that in 10.5 you can scroll in any unfocused window by simply moving the cursor above it and start to scroll up/down with the mouse wheel. No need to pull the window into focus.

[robg adds: You could scroll background windows in 10.4, too, but you had to be able to see the scrollbar; Command-dragging would then scroll the window. In 10.5, as long as you can see some of the window, it will scroll when the mouse is within its visible area. This one is documented on Apple's 300 tips page, but I bet many (including myself) may have not even noticed it...]
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10.5: Scroll background windows via the mouse
Authored by: wblj on Nov 26, '07 09:52:28AM

This doesn't seem to work with Firefox (2.0.0.9); that is, if I have FF in the background and can see the whole window, nothing scrolls for me when I hover over any part of it's window :-(



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10.5: Scroll background windows via the mouse
Authored by: skwerl on Nov 26, '07 10:30:35AM

That's because Firefox isn't a Mac application--it's a poorly-executed port of a piece of **** PC executable. So it should come as no surprise when it fails to behave how a real Mac application should.



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10.5: Scroll background windows via the mouse
Authored by: mkbilbo on Nov 27, '07 10:08:42AM

Hardly. Firefox is more a creature of Linux than anything...



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10.5: Scroll background windows via the mouse
Authored by: mkbilbo on Nov 27, '07 09:59:01AM

Same here. Maybe it's not something you get automatically but something Firefox needs a patch to take advantage of. It would be really handy.



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10.5: Scroll background windows via the mouse
Authored by: unforeseen:X11 on Nov 26, '07 11:23:39AM

Waaah, that's one of my favorite new "features" of 10.5 (was about time...), and you say that you didn't notice it? Can't believe that...

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10.5: Scroll background windows via the mouse
Authored by: osxfan57 on Nov 27, '07 06:10:42PM

So what's the point of being able to scroll background windows a la 10.4.x? What useful purposes could this serve?

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