302779 - Option to disable the Mouse Gestures

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 282140

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[smileaf]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050727 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050727 Firefox/1.0.6

I'm on a laptop and my touch pad has a left-right scrolling section at the
bottom of the pad.
I'm constantly accidentally hitting this which is causing firefox to go back 1
page(sometimes more)
It was an annoyance before but after what happened just 5 mins ago.. I can't
stand it anymore and will refuse to use firefox again for a while.

I was typing out an email and went to hit send.. and accidentally hit that
special spot on my mouse pad and back 1 page I went.. I hit forward to find the
email I spent 30+ mins working on was completely GONE.

PLEASE!!! add the option to disable this feature!

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

AFAIK this is a feature of the trackpad drivers. On my laptop this can be
disabled in the trackpad drivers. I don't think this is something that can be
controlled by firefox.

Comment 2

[smileaf]

If that were the case why doesn't it happen with every web browser?  
obviously there is some code someplace other than the driver that's causing    
this. Perhaps GTK if it's not firefox? I don't know.  
I don't know how it could even be GTK tho being how/why would they hook-up that 
sort of functionality? Only logical place for that sort of hook-up is in 
Firefox. Please correct me if I'm wrong. 
  
I like the side scrolling function of the touchpad.  
I hate the go back/forward function that's done in Firefox.  

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

was fixed in Firefox 1.5 RC 1

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 282140 ***