touchpad vertical scrolling (in Firefox) sporadically scrolls through page history

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Andrey Arapov

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Feb 22, 2020, 5:47:15 AM2/22/20

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Hi all,

I was wondering if that's only me, basically the issue I am having is that the touchpad vertical scrolling sporadically scrolls through page history in Firefox (haven't tried Chromium yet) which is quiet annoying I must say.

By "scrolls through page history" I mean that if I opened some page in a single tab, then I clicked on some link there and then clicked on another link down there (and so on), at some random time later, the touchpad vertical scroll would not scroll me through the opened page up or down as expected, but it would rather go through pages (back or forward, depending if I scroll up or down) in the history at a lightning speed.
This normally happens when I press `Alt-<Left/Right-arrow>` key combination.

Has anyone encountered this issue as well?

OS: Qubes R4.1
HW: MacBookPro14,3 (mid-2017)

Kind regards,
Andrey Arapov

Andrey Arapov

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Feb 27, 2020, 4:20:24 PM2/27/20

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>> Has anyone encountered this issue as well?
>

> Yes (in 4.0.,3), very annoying.

I had a few changes and it looks like the issue has gone now.

The changes were:
1. Linux v4.19 vs v5.4
2. A new roadrunner2/macbook12-spi-driver: ddfbc7733542b8474a0e8f593aba91e06542be4f vs. 31cc060adcb431efdf9cf547d600bb45bb00a7f4
3. Updated these packages: xen-hvm-stubdom-linux-1.0.13-1.fc31.x86_64.rpm xen-hvm-stubdom-legacy-4.12.1-3.fc31.x86_64.rpm qubes-core-dom0-4.1.8-1.fc31.x86_64.rpm qubes-core-dom0-linux-4.1.3-1.fc31.x86_64.rpm qubes-core-dom0-linux-kernel-install-4.1.3-1.fc31.x86_64.rpm

I am inclined to believe the buggy version (31cc060ad...) roadrunner2/macbook12-spi-driver was the culprit.
I've added the diff between these here https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-linux-kernel/pull/174