On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 14:04 -0800, Stephen Walton wrote: > 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. > If you want to keep horizontal scrolling in other programs but not Firefox you could turn it off in Firefox: type about:config in the url bar and change the following options: "mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action" 0 "mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.sysnumlines" true If you want to turn it off everywhere change this setting in xorg.conf: "HorizScrollDelta" "0" -- John Yanosko
