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[Antony]

Some of you should know that I recently acquired the world's best mouse - Mighty Mouse. It has great mouse, but Mozilla (suite) and Firefox do not like it.

The annoying problem, when I scroll horizontally, Mozilla (Suite) and Firefox would move the page forward or backward.

(picture of my original Apple Pro Mouse and new Apple Mighty Mouse.)


As it can be seen from the picture shown above, the scrolling device is not a wheel but a ball. It's not easy to scroll in perfect vertical direction.

How do I disable such annoying forward and backward features in Firefox and Mozilla (Suite)?

(This feature might be suitable for those who have vertical and horizontal wheels on their mice, but definitely not for Mighty Mouse users.)

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412.6.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.2.2

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[Antony]

I found this solution from MozillaZine,

In about:config, simply set
mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action to 0

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

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[Antony]

I've noticed that horizontal scrolling would move the web page in wrong direction.

When I scroll to right, the web page moves to left; when I scroll to left, the web page moves to the right.

I have no problems with horizontal scrolling in Safari, Microsoft Word, and all other applications.

help.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.5

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[akbash]

I'm not certain. Have you tried tweaking the pref mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.numlines? It's an integer, and it can be negative. You may also have to toggle the boolean mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.sysnumlines. Between those and mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action that you've already discovered there's a lot of space for configuration.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050918 Firefox/1.6a1

[Antony]