Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 136105
mozilla and firefox mouse button 6/7 events don't scroll left/right
Last modified: 2018-04-11 08:05:35 EDT
Description of problem: The default bindings of mozilla and firefox cause mouse button 6/7 events to go back/forward in the history, instead of scrolling the window left/right. This is inconsistent with konqueror, epiphany and other GNOME applications. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mozilla-1.7.3-13 firefox-0.10.1-1.0PR1.10 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch browser 2. Go to a wide web page, or make window width small 3. Try to scroll left/right using bottom of synaptics touchpad Actual results: Mozilla/Firefox browsers go forward/back in the history. Epiphany, Konqueror, and GNOME applications such as Text Editor scroll left/right. Expected results: Mouse bindings should perform consistent actions in all applications.
The behaviour you require can be obtained by changing the Firefox configuration. Type about:config in the Firefox address bar and change the following: * mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action => 0 (was 2 on mine) * mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.sysnumlines => true (was false on mine) Surely the Mozilla team should apply this more standard behaviour as the default.
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates, which may have resolved this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade their system to the latest version available. Therefore closing this bug as obsolete. If you experience this problem on the up-to-date system, please reopen this bug with an additional information.