Just wanna ask you guys about Firefox. When you use the track pad to scroll down or sideways with Firefox, the screen goes back to the previous page occasionally, which doesn't happen with Safari. Anyone of you guys notice this? :qmark: [Edited on 7.10.05 by retinasurgeon]
Your installation of Firefox might have "mouse gestures" enabled. Basic actions like going to previous and next pages are performed by click-dragging gestures left and right respectively.
hi retinasurgeon, yup noticed the same here (default install without any mouse gesture extension) I do have sidetrack installed though.
sorry for being so ignorant.. but how exactly do you solve this problem? i looked at the preferences of firefox and cant seem to find the part about "mouse gestures".. thanks.. having difficulties using firefox to surf the internet..
That's because by default, it's set to browse history back or forward. If you want to change this action, here are the steps: 1. in the URL field of Firefox, type about:config and hit the return key. 2. scroll down to the preference entry named mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action (it's alphabetical) 3. double click on that line and change the value from 2 to 0 then click ok That's all there is to it. [Edited on 7-21-2005 by elbertc]
so stupid of me.. i just found out what makes it move to the previous page, unlike before that i am brought to the previous page without me knowing what i did. and come to think of it, i think that this setting is quite useful (at least) for me. thanks for the info! there are still a lot of things i dont know about these things. and i learn a lot from here
