laptop touchpad causing browser 'Back'??

Stephen Walton stephen.walton at csun.edu
Sat Dec 11 22:04:33 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 16:34 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Stephen Walton wrote:
> > But my real
> > question is, what feature of Firefox causes it to go back pages when one
> > accidentally touches a particular part of the touchpad, and which part
> > of the touchpad is involved?
>
> - Horizontal scrolling (button six and seven events) through moving
>   the finger on the lower side of the touchpad.

Ah, thanks for that!  It turns out that "Shift+scroll" is a document
mouse shortcut for going backwards through pages in Firefox.  Apparently
horizontal touchpad scrolling works the same way.  So that's what we're
all seeing.  I suppose that the only way to get rid of this with
Synaptics would be to turn off touchpad scrolling.

Thanks again for digging into this.

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