287533 - horizontal scrolling doesn't work as it should using a mouse

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[majeru]

User-Agent:       Opera/7.54 (X11; Linux i686; U)  [en]
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

I have a mouse with 2 scroll wheels, I'm using them to scroll vertically and 
horizontally, but in Firefox the second doesn't act as it should. It causes 
Back/Forward events to appear, instead of horizontal scrolling.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

It would help if you said what mouse you are using...

Comment 2

[majeru]

(In reply to comment #1)
> It would help if you said what mouse you are using...

I'm using an A4Tech WOP-35 mouse, but i guess that's not so important. My
horizontal scroll works just fine in almost all the other X11 applications, and
even firefox is recognising those mouse events. The problem is that it doesn't
treat them as it should.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Kid]

Sideways scrolling on tilt wheel mice has never worked in Firefox under Windows.  I've heard it works fine under Linux though.

My mice are Logitech's Click N Go Plus, and the MX610, both with tilt wheels and both with newest drivers. 

I find it odd that it's never worked since sideways scrolling works fine in Netscape.

I would love to use sideways scrolling once again, but really don't want to go back to Netscape. 

Comment 5

[Joachim Rousseau]

I have the same bug with a Logitech MX700 mouse.
The mouse axis are working as expected in Nautilus, Terminal, etc...
Expected behaviour : 
- click on the "up" button (top of mouse wheel) must be equivalent to continuous scroll-up with mousewheel
- click on the "down" button (bottom of the mousewheel) must be equivalent to a continusous scroll-down with mousewheel
Actual behaviour :
 - All apps except Firefox : same as expected
 - Firefox 2.0.0.11 : The "down" button scroll down as expected, but the "up" one does a "BACK". It is useless since the mouse has a back and a forward buttons that are working fine.

Details :
 Firefox :
 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; fr; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11

 Excerpt from etc/X11/Xorg.conf (working as expected in all apps except FF):
 Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Device"	"/dev/input/mice"
	Option		"Protocol"	"ExplorerPS/2"
	Option		"ZAxisMapping"	"4 5"
	Option		"ButtonMapping"	"1 2 3 6 7"
	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"false"
 EndSection

(I used http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/materiel/logitech_mx_510 to setup my config)

Comment 6

[Joachim Rousseau]

Note that I had this problem since the first time I installed Ubuntu 7.04 + Firefox (2007/05), and the problem was here again after Ubuntu 7.10 upgrade (2007/10) and after a clean format+install Ubuntu 7.10 (yesterday).

Comment 7

[Jeffrey Hurwit]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.9

My pointing device of preference is a single-touch touchpad. I use a Cirque PS2 Cruise Cat on my desktop system, and have two notebooks, one which uses an Alps touchpad, and the other which uses a Synaptics pad-- that represents all three major manufacturers of this type of pointing device.

All three include horizontal scrolling functionality, which is enabled in software drivers provided with the devices, and activated by sliding a single fingertip along the horizontal scroll region at the bottom of the touchpad.

No version of Firefox that I have used responds to horizontal scrolling events produced by any of these touchpads, in any kind of way-- no vertical page jumps, no page back/forward, nothing. (The Cirque touchpad, however, does include a separate page back/forward function, to which FF responds correctly.) I would really appreciate having horizontal scrolling functionality in FF through my touchpad.

Comment 8

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Could someone who can reproduce this test with a current Firefox trunk nightly build?

Comment 9

[Joachim Rousseau]

Sorry, I now have a MX Revolution Mouse, and horizontal scrolling is working perfetcly with this mouse and Ubuntu.
I don't have my MX 700 anymore so I cannot test this anymore. 
Someone else ?

Comment 10

[Josiah Bruner [:jsbruner]]

If anyone can reproduce this, please let us know.

Comment 11

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

last report was from >2 years ago claiming the problem has been fixed. Closing.