Bug 430405 - touchpad horizontal scroll defaults to page forward/back, not scroll horizontally
Summary: touchpad horizontal scroll defaults to page forward/back, not scroll horizont...
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Christopher Aillon
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: 2Bupstreamed
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-01-27 17:40 UTC by Charles R. Anderson
Modified: 2008-04-04 03:57 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-04-04 03:57:46 UTC
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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.



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