Firefox Touchpad Issue

Joined
Jun 18, 2005
Messages
169
Reaction score
1
Points
18
Location
Greenville, SC
Your Mac's Specs
12" PowerBook 1.5ghz
I've recently started using Firefox on my Mac and while it seems to work well the problem is that there seems to be this feature that "back pages" or "forward pages" when I make a two finger motions even slightly right or left on my track pad. Is there any way to turn this off. It seems way too sensitive and I'm constantly going back one or two pages when I don't mean to.

How do I turn this off?
 
OP
Abdiel
Joined
Jun 18, 2005
Messages
169
Reaction score
1
Points
18
Location
Greenville, SC
Your Mac's Specs
12" PowerBook 1.5ghz
Please help. This is driving me freekin nutz.
 
Joined
Feb 8, 2005
Messages
132
Reaction score
0
Points
16
Your Mac's Specs
1.25 15inch powerbook
I have the same problem with my powerbook. I'm using iscoll2 and i just disabled the horizontal scrolling.
 
Joined
Apr 20, 2005
Messages
1,804
Reaction score
31
Points
48
firefox caused me so many headaches on my macs I just deleted it, I stick with Safari now.a;though sometimes I use explorer
 
Joined
Feb 8, 2005
Messages
315
Reaction score
6
Points
18
Yup. Same problem here. I only use it if I'm using a mouse instead of the TP.

ed724
 
OP
Abdiel
Joined
Jun 18, 2005
Messages
169
Reaction score
1
Points
18
Location
Greenville, SC
Your Mac's Specs
12" PowerBook 1.5ghz
iNAP said:
firefox caused me so many headaches on my macs I just deleted it, I stick with Safari now.a;though sometimes I use explorer

I would stick with Safari but the problem is that the firewall at the University I work at has problems with secure pages on Safari. My Mac-savy IT guys just said that the best thing to do is to use Firefox.

Maybe I'll see if the Firefox site has a fix.
 
OP
Abdiel
Joined
Jun 18, 2005
Messages
169
Reaction score
1
Points
18
Location
Greenville, SC
Your Mac's Specs
12" PowerBook 1.5ghz
Hey! I found it on the Firefox forum. Here's how to stop it.

This solves the scrolling issue:
In Firefox, type "about:config" in the address bar. Look for these fields and change them to these values:

mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action to 0

This stops the problem without having to turn off all of your side scrolling.
 

Shop Amazon


Shop for your Apple, Mac, iPhone and other computer products on Amazon.
We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon and affiliated sites.
Top