How to: Disable automatic scrolling in Firefox

I use middle click a lot in Firefox: to open links in the background, to close tabs, to open new ones… This means that more often not I accidentally middle click on a blank area of the webpage, meaning I enable the browser’s automatic scroll feature and start moving up and down the page.

While I understand that Firefox just wants to make my browsing more comfortable, I find this scrolling quite annoying. This is why I was happy to see there’s actually a way to disable the automatic scroll feature.

You only have to open the browser’s configuration settings (Tools > Options) , go to the Advanced section and then, in the General tab, remove the tick from “Use autoscrolling”. It’s as easy as that! The autoscroll feature will be gone and you won’t enable it by mistake anymore.