Horizontal mouse wheel scrolling broken
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Wishlist
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Daniel Stone |
Bug Description
I have a T42 laptop with a touchpad. When I remove the
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
line from my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I can use the bottom of the touchpad as a
horizontal mouse wheel. (As far as I understand, that line was added to
xorg.conf precisely to avoid this Firefox bug. It seems somewhat backwards to
me. On second thought, I agree with that decision -- it is better to release
hoary with the bug hidden, if there's no time to fix it properly.)
Horizontal scrolling works fine in applications such as The GIMP or just random
generic Gtk+ programs that use a GtkTreeView.
Horizontal scrolling does not work work in Firefox -- it goes forwards/backwards
in history instead. This is an upstream bug
https:/
been reviewed and only waits to be committed, if I understand it correctly.
This is also Debian bug http://
Then there's another problem: when I go to about:config and change
mousewheel.
the direction is reversed. It is easy to duplicate: enable horizontal
scrolling, find a large image, open it in The GIMP and Firefox, then try
scrolling. GIMP and Firefox scroll in different directions. GIMP is right,
Firefox is wrong. I haven't seen a bug report for this in bugzilla.
nor in bugs.debian.org yet.
I'll claim this one since it's really on xserver-xorg, and since I added that.
The problem is not Firefox behaviour, but user expectations. People simply
don't expect horizontal scrolling to work on touchpads, cool as it is (I had
multi-finger taps, corner taps, circular, horizontal and vertical scrolling
enabled on my touchpad). It is disabled for that reason -- vertical scrolling
is hard enough to grok, but horizontal scrolling being on by default freaks
people out.