horizontal scroll should scroll horizontally

[David Prieto]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

I've been shocked to find that scrolling the touchpad horizontally does not result in the page SCROLLING horizontally, but taking me to the previous / next page seen.

This seems confusing to me, I would prefer scrolling to do what it was originally intended to do - scrolling, as it does in every other app in Ubuntu.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

this is not a bug in firefox, but rather how the horizontal touchpad is mapped to virtual mouse buttons in X. dunno where to reassign it, thus adding a tag so people from QA take a look.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

ah, maybe a question ahead: are you using synaptics?

[David Prieto (frandavid100-gmail)]

You mean a Synaptics touchpad, right? Yeah, I am.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add your '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' file to your bug report as an attachment? Thanks in advance.

[David Prieto (frandavid100-gmail)]

Please find it attached.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Is this still an issue for you in Hardy? If yes: What is your mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action-setting in about:config? This should be set to "0".

[David Prieto (frandavid100-gmail)]

Seems to work fine now, and curiously mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action is set to "2".

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

ok, closing as fixed.