How do I stop the spacebar from scrolling down in Firefox?

How do I stop the spacebar from scrolling down in Firefox?

Open up the preferences and a little window will show up with all of your keybindings. Right click, “Add a new key”, don’t enter any code into the box (doesn’t matter what title you give it; I chose “Disable Space”), “OK”, click in the little box on the bottom left of the main window, press space, and then apply.

How do I enable spacebar scrolling?

When you’re viewing a long web page, hit the space bar to scroll down one screen. Hit Shift + space bar to scroll up one screen. You can go through long web pages without moving your hand to the mouse or to the page-up and page-down keys.

What is the purpose of the space bar key?

The space bar , spacebar, blank, or space key Space bar is a key on a typewriter or alphanumeric keyboard in the form of a horizontal bar in the lowermost row, significantly wider than all other keys. Its main purpose is to conveniently enter a space, e.g., between words during typing.

Which bar is used to scroll the page up and down?

Use the scroll bars to move through a worksheet

To scroll	Do this
One window up or down	Click above or below the scroll box on the vertical scroll bar.
One window left or right	Click to the left or right of the scroll box on the horizontal scroll bar.
A large distance	Hold down SHIFT while dragging the scroll box .

What is used to scroll up and down the page?

Scroll bars are utilized using the mouse, touchpad, or keyboard. With a mouse, you can move the scroll bar by clicking the scroll arrow at either end of the scroll bars. Most computers today include a mouse with a wheel or button, allowing you to scroll up and down, and in some cases, left to right.

How fast do you click space?

You need to hit (press and release) your spacebar as many times as possible before time’s up. You can try as many rounds as you want. Just make sure to get your best score (CPS – Click Per Second). According to our big data, the average Spacebar CPS is 6.27.

Why does the space bar do page down in HTML5?

For me this seems to be a bit counter-intuitive, and also this behaviour affects games and other interactive HTML5 apps, because if you map some action to the space bar it might also scroll down the page, which is not what you want. Also the arrow keys, page down button and the mouse scrollwheel are usually enough options to scroll down the page.

Why does my page move up when I press the spacebar?

When I press the spacebar my entire page moves up (scrolls down): I don’t want this to happen. My body tag is styled to overflow:hidden, if that has anything to do with it, so the page won’t have any scrollbars.

Why does backspace go back a page in IE?

Back in 9/26/95, the Backspace key was mapped for go up one directory in Windows Explorer. This could be the reason why Microsoft also used the Backspace key on their IE for back/up a page. Of course, this is pure speculation on my part 🙂

Why does the space bar do page down in mosaic?

In WWW/LineMode/Implementation/www.c, the function User_Selection has no reference to space bar. However, it does map new line, that is the ENTER key to next page! Based on this review, the functionality was introduced in Mosaic.