Ask HN: What happened to browser scrolling via PgDn?

1 points by Elrac 7y ago ↗ HN

I do most of my surfing on a desktop, and for navigating around I prefer to use the keyboard.

Lately, the PageDown key isn't working any more on many pages. I press it once, I go down about half a page, once more, maybe a second page, about the third time I end up back at the top. Long pages don't scroll down any more.

This is happening to me in Firefox 64.0 under Windows 7.

That this long-traditional method doesn't work any more is badly frustrating. Can anybody please explain what's going on and what I could do about it?

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pwg 7y ago ↗

When you encounter one of these, first try turning off CSS styles (View -> Page Style -> No Style). If that fixes the issue then the page author did something in their styles to mess with scrolling.

If that does not work, try turning off javascript (NoScript extension works for this). If that fixes it, then the page author is doing something in their javascript code that is breaking keyboard scrolling.

As for "what to do" - other than complain to the page authors, not much beyond turning off CSS and/or Javascript to get things to work better.

Elrac 7y ago ↗

Will try, thanks!