258190 - Scroll Wheel will not Scroll Horizontally with Shift Key

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 143038

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[bryan kennedy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040901 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040901 Firefox/0.9.1+

In most other OS X apps I am able to use the scroll wheel on my mice (multiple
different type and brands) to scroll vertically and hold shift down while moving
the scroll wheel to scroll horizontally.  This does not work on Firefox on OS X.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Hold down shift
2.Move scroll wheel on mouse

Actual Results:  
Nothing hapens at all.

Expected Results:  
The page should scroll left or right if there was content in those directions

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

shift-scroll is for backward/forward : see bug 197702

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Shift+wheel is back/forward to be similar to IE on Windows.  If most Mac
browsers use Shift+wheel to scroll horizontally, maybe Firefox should have a
different behavior on Mac.

Comment 3

[bryan kennedy]

I guess that was my point.  In most other Applications, not just browsers, on OS
X, shift+scroll wheel = scroll horizontally.  This is the behavior in Finder
windows, Excel, Word, Photoshop, IE for Mac, as well as Camino.  I believe that
the discussion on bug 197702 pertains specifically to Firefox in general.  I
guess I am not familiar with how this has been dealt with in the past.  
However, I feel pretty strongly that for the OS X version of Firefox that the
scroll wheel behavior should work the same as the majority of OS X native
applications.

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

hmm, I wonder how Camino does it, since the scrollwhell code doesn't have an
option to make a modifier scroll horizontally

This relatively straightforward to fix, though, if we decide to do it.

Also, what does Safari do?

Comment 5

[bryan kennedy]

(In reply to comment #4)

> Also, what does Safari do?

Safari behaves like other OS X apps.  Shift + Scroll = Scroll Horizontally

Comment 6

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Is this dependant on bug 143038?

Comment 7

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 143038 ***