Bug 430405

Summary:	touchpad horizontal scroll defaults to page forward/back, not scroll horizontally
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Charles R. Anderson <cra>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Charles R. Anderson 2008-01-27 17:40:14 UTC

Description of problem:

Scrolling along the bottom of a touchpad causes Firefox to move forward/back in
the history instead of scrolling the current web page horizontally.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.0-0.beta2.12.nightly20080121.fc9

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make Firefox window small enough so a horizontal scrollbar appears.
2. Slide finger along bottom of synaptics touchpad.

Actual results:

Page back/forward in history.

Expected results:

Scroll horizontally.

Additional info:

This fixes the problem:

Go to: about:config

Search for horiz and set this parameter:

mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action  userset  integer  1

The default value of this parameter should be changed.  Binding this to page
forward/back is just braindead and causes no end to headaches when accidentally
activating the scroll feature of the touchpad.  Scrolling the mouse/touchpad
should cause scrolling, not forward/back.

Comment 1 Charles R. Anderson 2008-04-04 03:57:46 UTC

This seems to be working correctly in FF3 Beta 5.