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What the f*** is going on?!?

There I am, minding my own business viewing the sights around the world as listed on Google Sightseeing and I begin to get annoyed as my shiny new Mighty Mouse seems to be malfunctioning.

And then a pattern begins to emerge …

It seems that I can happily scroll up and down to my heart’s content, but should a Google supplied advert happen to pass under my mouse pointer whilst scrolling down the page then the scrolling stops … the bastards! It seems to only happen when scrolling down the page - scrolling back up works but you can’t carry on downwards until you mouse your pointer from over the ad.

I don’t know whether this is Google’s doing or that of the people who created/maintain Google Sightseeing - it doesn’t happen on this site (I bet you hadn’t noticed the appearance of adverts below the list of links on the right, did you?).

I’d be interested to know if anyone else has come across this?

Comments

I have, using a normal mouse in Windows. It’s because of the way the google adverts are shown in an iframe. The browser scrolls down in the iframe rather than the main page. It doesn’t affect all google ads but quite a lot of them. - SoulSniper

Hi Timmargh, I have never heard about that this happens, Sometimes, my computer can jam when it wants to, but it behaves itself. Hope you’re well! I have been neglecting my blog and other people’s as I have been on holiday in Majorca. Doesn’t Ouch look great in the new format? That’s one thing I missed while on holiday, and I missed Mik Scarlet(my hero!) being on Radio 4’s You and Yours testing a new bike for wheelchair users. Piffle! I wanted to be home li8stening to it! I have done that so am now happy! - Katie Fraser

@ SoulSniper : Ah, cheers for the info. @ Katie : Did you have a good holiday? - Timmargh

Thanks Timmargh! I had a great time, relaxing in the sun in Majorca. Check my blog out for tales of it! - Katie Fraser

Hi Timmargh! I haven’t had this problem with google ads, but I have had the continual problem of my page scrolling down uncontrollably when I go to the crip blog “Brokenclay”. Since I can’t get the page to stop scrolling, I have never had the opportunity to right a comment though :P - Gimpy Mumpy

That’s weird, init?! - Wayne Smallman

You said a good comment about the concert in the caves I saw so I thought you might like to check the website out for more info, Check out this: www.cuevas-hams.com Have fun,but be warned click on the english flag to give you a british version or you’ll end up with foreign language you might not be able to read! - Katie Fraser

I’ve had that problem with iframes before (with a regular scroll wheel mouse on a mac) it starts scrolling inside the iframe instead of the page. I’m pretty sure google ads iframes, so if the add is even 1 pixel larger then the iframe, it will get stuck scrolling in the iframe. because the ads are on top of the iframe, it doesn’t have where to scroll to when scrolling up, so it continues scrolling the main page. - LobsterMan

Am feeling a lot of love for my Mighty Mouse… - Wayne Smallman

They’re pretty good, aren’t they? - Timmargh