Ubuntu
firefox package

change default mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action

Bug #31922 reported by Timo Aaltonen
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Bug Description

I'd suggest setting this:

mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action 0

because the default setting makes a back/forward action if you scroll the wheel rapidly, and that is not just unintuitive but also very annoying... I edited my wiki-page on w.u.c and was bitten by this, all changes were lost :)

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

oh, this is of course dapper, firefox 1.5. On breezy/ff-1.0 there was no such problem.

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villejuho (villejuho) wrote :

This happens to me too, changing mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action setting in about:config fixes it.

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Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, please file additional comments in the MAIN bug report https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/31827.

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Bobby T. (bobby3) wrote :

I just noticed this today. I've never had the problem before, though this is a new setup on a new system. My mousewheel.horizscrool.withnokey.action IS set to 0 yet it's still occuring...

And I'm finding this occuring even if I don't spin the mousewheel very fast... :(

It's so annoying that I'm strongly considering using IE so that I can do anything at this point...

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