# Feature Request: Refrain from providing middle mouse button scroll lock

**URL:** <https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/feature-request-refrain-from-providing-middle-mouse-button-scroll-lock/135732>\
**Category:** Firefox Development\
**Tags:** feedback, issue\
**Created:** [September 12, 2024, 5:41pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/feature-request-refrain-from-providing-middle-mouse-button-scroll-lock/135732 "2024-09-12T17:41:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Alman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Alman](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/Alman)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 5:41pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/feature-request-refrain-from-providing-middle-mouse-button-scroll-lock/135732/1 "2024-09-12T17:41:31Z")

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**This is my use case:**

I’m regularly browsing lists of hyperlinks to follow list items’ content in new browser tabs.

So, what I’m often doing is to middle click a hyperlink and immediately push the mouse away so I can continue my work using the keyboard without the mouse pointer being permanently in the way.

I’m a quick worker, so this what happens when I’m either missing to hit a hyperlink or when a web designer decided it would be cute to show a Hand pointer on an element that’s not being a hyperlink:

1. I middle-click an element
2. auto-scroll ist getting enabled
3. I immediately release the middle mouse button
4. this enables scroll-lock mode for auto-scroll
5. I push the mouse away
6. the list item disappears into oblivion

**See this screencast:**

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 ![Immediate scrolling](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/mozilla/original/3X/4/9/490402bb354558be50a4cb1943485d0a1ef6a2f5.gif)

  

**Desired situation**

I want to continue to use auto-scroll for _intentionally_ scrolling through a web page.

But I do _ **not** _ want scroll-lock to happen in any way, no matter how short I’m pressing the middle mouse button on a non-hyperlink element.

Please, add an additional option for permanently disabling scroll-lock when auto-scroll jumps in, so when the middle mouse button is released, scrolling _ **always** _ stops immediately.

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**Author:** ![bjh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/discourse.mozilla.org/bjh/32/21802_2.png) [@bjh](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/bjh)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2024, 11:55pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/feature-request-refrain-from-providing-middle-mouse-button-scroll-lock/135732/2 "2024-09-16T23:55:40Z")

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This forum isn’t very active and posting here isn’t a good way to reach the developers.

Two ways to make suggestions to Mozilla:  
• Suggest the idea with Mozilla Connect. [https://connect.mozilla.org/](https://connect.mozilla.org/)  
• Report the issue in Bugzilla. [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/home](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/home)

There are also more active discussion rooms on the Matrix. [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix)

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**Author:** ![Alman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Alman](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/Alman)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 10:56pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/feature-request-refrain-from-providing-middle-mouse-button-scroll-lock/135732/3 "2024-09-18T22:56:22Z")

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Thanks for pointing me, @BJ!

I created a feature request at Connect then:

[https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/feature-request-refrain-from-providing-middle-mouse-button/idi-p/71223#M38705](https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/feature-request-refrain-from-providing-middle-mouse-button/idi-p/71223#M38705)