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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