Default touchpad configuration confusing

Michael Favia michael.favia at insitesinc.com
Sun Nov 6 17:45:26 UTC 2005


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Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 06.11.2005, 14:55 +0000 schrieb Joe Desbonnet:
> 
> 
>>It turns out that by default
>>if you slide your finger from right to left near the bottom of the pad
>>you get a button 6 event which will cause Firefox to go back a page.
> 
> 
> I also think this behavior a bit annoying and IMHO it should be disabled
> by default. But complaining here on the list will probably not help if
> you don't file a bug report at

The problem actually lies in Firefox's default configuration to go back
and forward pages with horizontal scrolling. Combine that with the large
horizontal scrolling area of the default configuration of the touchpad
and you have a recipe for seeing your homepage more than youd like :).


Firefox behavior can be easily disabled with
mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action=0 in about:config IIRC. I don't
think we should disable horizontal scrolling on the syn touchpads
because it is very useful but perhaps we should make it a little smaller
of an area for sensitivities sake.
- -mf
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