3 fingers scroll up/down in Safari, on snow leopard

Hello,
Anyone knows how to activate in Safari the 3 fingers scroll up/down available in Firefox? I am using Snow Leopard.
Cheers!
K.

HI,
*"I understand that this has to do with FlashPlayer plugin for Safari (btw, mine is the latest 10.0.32). Why wasn't this happening in 10.5? Is it because Safari is running in 64-bit mode? "*
Run Safari in 32-bit mode.
Right or control click the Safari icon in the Applications folder, then click Get Info.
In the Get Info window click the black disclosure triangle where you see: General
Select: Open in 32-bit mode and close the Get Info window and restart your Mac.
Sometimes uninstalling and reinstalling a *fresh copy* of the Flash player plugin helps.
Go here:
How to uninstall the Adobe Flash Player plug-in
When you are finished uninstalling the old Flash plugin, go here and install a fresh copy
of Flash Player plugin.
Adobe - Adobe Flash Player


As with any software installation, repair disk permissions...
Quit any open applications/programs. Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.
Check out "a brody's" post here regarding updates and upgrades 10.6
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10180165#10180165
*"Don't blindly believe that Apple will have tested all the software that can work with the said update"*
Carolyn

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