[PLUG] firefox and up/down

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

I'm running firefox, but I'm having trouble with keyboard vertical
scrolling.

    Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2006 mozilla.org

When I type up/down arrow and page-up/down, the *cursor* moves, but
not necessarily the window contents.  That is, up/down arrow moves the
text cursor one line up or down rather than, as I'd like, the contents
up or down by one line.  Worse, it's according to some document layout
magic rather than according to the way I view the contents.
Page-up/down is the same.  The result is that page-down twice followed
by page-up has the result that the page-up just moves the cursor to
the top of the window: I'd need a second page-up to move the contents
up.

An example of this is http://slashdot.org/ :

    Page-up/down do not work at all until I click in the window
    contents.
    
    Then they work, but page-down + page-up does not leave me at the
    top of the contents, but one page down.

A worse example is http://heart75011.blogspot.com/ :

    Page-down and down-arrow move from the title to the bottom without
    passing by the intermediate contents.  At the bottom of the
    contents, I can not page back up.

It occurred to me that this could be related to vi vs emacs key
bindings.  After googling, I see that firefox should respect gnome
settings, but gnome-control-center --> keyboard-shortcuts only has
desktop and sound, no text option.

I tried fiddling with the gtk theme, no luck.

    jeff@astra:~ $ ls -lt .gtk*
    -rw-r--r-- 1 jeff jeff  30 2006-08-03 10:19 .gtkrc.mine
    -rw-r--r-- 1 jeff jeff  86 2005-07-23 12:22 .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
    -rw-r--r-- 1 jeff jeff   1 2004-11-20 18:35 .gtkrc.mine~
    -rw-r--r-- 1 jeff jeff  26 2004-11-20 10:29 .gtkrc-2.0.mine
    -rw-r--r-- 1 jeff jeff 145 2004-11-20 10:26 .gtkrc
    jeff@astra:~ $ cat .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
    # Autowritten by gnome-settings-daemon. Do not edit

    include "/home/jeff/.gtkrc.mine"
    jeff@astra:~ $ cat .gtkrc
    # -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT
    include "/usr/share/themes/Default/gtk/gtkrc"

    include "~/.gtkrc.mine"

    # -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT

    jeff@astra:~ $ cat .gtkrc.mine

    gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"
    jeff@astra:~ $

I did try creating a new (so vanilla) account and running a fresh and
so unconfigured firefox there.  Same behavior.

Any ideas what is happening?

-- 
 Jeff

 Jeff Abrahamson  <http://jeff.purple.com/>          +1 215/837-2287
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