mouse problem

[woodchopper]

When I am scrolling down through a webpage using the wheel on the mouse it keeps on constantly refrshing the page without any of the buttons or the wheel button being clicked- it is most annoying and I dont know why it is happening.

Have checked the mouse options in control panel but cant see anything amiss any ideas ?

[rojash]

It's fairly normal - nowt to do with your mouse but with the way pages are rendered in CSS. You'll see it if there are lots of pics on the page. What happens is that as you scroll down, pictures that were not in view are downloaded and the page is then reformatted to accommodate them.

[woodchopper]

Can it be turned off ?

[rojash]

Only by replacing all the web developers in the world, and sacking all members of the World Wide Web Consortium Standards Committee.

[woodchopper]

I take that as a no then ?

[rojash]

Depends how powerful you are :-)

[woodchopper]

The old computer has XP on it and didn't have the problem but the new - troublesome windows 7 computer has the irritating , annoying vexatious bloody annoying irritating problem with it - must give barrack a ring or william and see what they can do