303456 - mousewheel horizscroll should not default back/foward in history

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 282140

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050802 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050802 Firefox/1.0+

The default setting of mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action is 2 which is "2
- Move back/forward in history", but it can cause pages to change accidentally.
This has been occuring more often on the newer iBooks and Powerbooks because the
touchpads have 2 finger scrolling, and it's not too hard to accidentally move
your fingers left/right while moving up/down (causing a mousescroll horizontally
as well as vertically). Also, people using the new Mighty Mouse scroll ball (for
mac/windows) run into the problem commonly.

A better choice would be to set it the same as
mousewheel.withnokey.(action|numlines|sysnumlines), so the page scrolls
horizontally on a horizontal mouse scroll.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Attachment: default pref change

Changed default action from back/forward history to linescroll 1 with system
num lines (same settings as the vertical nokey scroll)

Comment 2

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Attachment: patch

real patch ;)

Comment 3

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

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