782429 - Can't go back and forth with one finger swipe

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Andrea Guglielmi]

OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion", System Preferences for the Magic Mouse are:

- "Point & Click" (all flagged): Scroll Direction: Natural - Secondary click: on the Right Side - Smart Zoom: Double-Tap with one finger
- "More Gestures" (all flagged): Swipe Pages: Scroll left or right with one finger - Swipe Fullscreen: Swipe with two fingers - Mission Control: Double-Tap with two fingers

Now:

- Open a new tab
- Follow a link
- Try to go back just scrolling/swiping left or right - NOTHING APPENS
- Scroll Up or Down (can't say how much you have to scroll)
- Try to go back just scrolling/swiping left or right - VOILA', You can go back in History

Pay attention, if you can't scroll you can't go back.

Comment 1

[Andrea Guglielmi]

I would add that swipe preferences like browser.gesture.swipe.left and browser.gesture.swipe.right should obey to system preference "Scroll Direction".

Comment 2

[Håvar I. Henriksen [:havarh]]

Attachment: One finger swipe?

One finger swipe? I only have an option for two finger swipe, and that works...

Comment 3

[Andrea Guglielmi]

Attachment: Magic Mouse prefPanel

Did you read I was talking about Magic Mouse?

Comment 4

[Håvar I. Henriksen [:havarh]]

(In reply to Andrea Guglielmi from comment #3)
> Created attachment 651546 [details]
> Magic Mouse prefPanel
> 
> Did you read I was talking about Magic Mouse?

Oops... Sorry, didn't see that. I thought you where using the Magic Trackpad...

Comment 5

[pharmboy614]

I'm having the same issue with my trackpad in Mountain Lion.

Comment 6

[Svetlana Tkachenko]

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/967905 "16 have this problem | posted 1 week ago"

Someone can try to reproduce / confirm?

Comment 7

[victorycig]

(In reply to Gryllida from comment #6)
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/967905 "16 have this problem |
> posted 1 week ago"
> 
> Someone can try to reproduce / confirm?

I can confirm I have the same problem. I've set up custom triggers using BetterTouchTool as a workaround for now. Before doing this, though, I killed BetterTouchTool to confirm it was not causing a conflict with the back/forward Firefox gestures.

Comment 8

[Svetlana Tkachenko]

Confirming as appears the number of people with this problem grew from 12 to 44 at the SUMO post and one of them also added a comment. Some report the gesture works for a time-frame and then stops.