Is there a way to use mousewheel for horizontal scroll in Firefox?

[Gabor]

I've been using Windows so long that I've gotten used to certain
behavior from my mouse. One of those is that if I hold the shift
key while using the scroll wheel it scrolls horizontally (as in
Acrobat Reader).

For some reason shift-mouse-scroll-wheel in Firefox scrolls through
the history instead of scrolling the page left or right. Is there
some way to change this action? Normally I don't run into the need
for horizontal scrolling, but recently I've been using an old PC
with 1280 x 1024 resolution and some important websites are configured
for more modern wide-screen monitors.

If I can't change the shift-mouse-ecroll-wheel action to do what I
want, can I at least make it do nothing, so I don't have to browse back
to the page I was trying to scroll right or left?

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Gabor

[Fred S *****]

I have the Logitech MX 1000, an older mouse no longer made, and it works
with the standard mouse driver to do that.

In my case, you simply push the wheel to the left or right, it moves the
window left and right as desired.

I also use Wizmouse, a nice utility that allows the mouse to scroll in
any window that is opened without clicking in that window.

Fred

[Zilmar de Souza Junior]

If you press the scroll button you'll be able to scroll in any direction
you want. A little button with 4 arrows will appear, just move to which way
you want.


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[Gabor]

O.K. To partially answer my own question I found this in about:config

mousewheel.with_shift.action

However this is one of those enumerated keys, and I couldn't find a
description of the available values on line. In any case, the default
action of 2 was not what I wanted, so I played around with other values.

Unfortunately all of the other values use the mouse for vertical
scrolling, not horizontal. For now I set it to 0, which only scrolls
a little bit, and at least leaves me on the same page.

Another point is that on the old PC I'm using FireFox 12.0, since that's
apparently the newest release that supports Windows 2000. So in the
about:config I don't see some values available in the latest versions
like:

mousewheel.with_shift.delta_multiplier_x
mousewheel.with_shift.delta_multiplier_y
mousewheel.with_shift.delta_multiplier_z

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Gabor

[Tom Oldman]

Pressing the scroll button will only give you a four-directional symbol
if your mouse is capable of sideways pressure on the scroll wheel. If
not, then all you get are up and down arrows.

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[Chris Luck]

On 26/11/13 00:16, Tom Oldman wrote:
> Zilmar de Souza Junior wrote, On 11/25/2013 17:36:
>> If you press the scroll button you'll be able to scroll in any
>> direction you want. A little button with 4 arrows will appear, just
>> move to which way you want.
>

> Pressing the scroll button will only give you a four-directional
> symbol if your mouse is capable of sideways pressure on the scroll
> wheel. If not, then all you get are up and down arrows.

I don't have a tilt-wheel mouse but if the about:config setting
'general.autoScroll' is set true (false by default) then Firefox
does show a navigation button on wheel-press.

Kubuntu 13.10, FF 25.0.1

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Regards,
Chris Luck

[Chris Luck]

On 25/11/13 23:00, Gabor wrote:
> Gabor wrote: O.K. To partially answer my own question I found this

> in about:config
>
> mousewheel.with_shift.action
>
> However this is one of those enumerated keys, and I couldn't find a
> description of the available values on line.

...

> Another point is that on the old PC I'm using FireFox 12.0, since
> that's apparently the newest release that supports Windows 2000.

This will help you with keys and values:

<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:Mouse_Wheel_Scrolling#Mozilla_16_.28Firefox_16.29_or_earlier>

Unfortunately horizontal scrolling seems to have worked only around the
time of v3.xx as this bug shows:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71464

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Regards,
Chris Luck

[Chris Luck]

On 26/11/13 05:23, Chris Luck wrote:
> Unfortunately horizontal scrolling seems to have worked only around

> the time of v3.xx ...

On the other hand...
This says it was working at v16.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2626217

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Regards,
Chris Luck

[EE]

You can use the arrow keys to scroll. That works with horizontal and
vertical scrolling.

[Gabor]

I'd like to thank everyone who has pointed out other ways to scroll.
I actually was aware of most of these. However my real problem was
that my brain is wired to use shift-mousewheel. Thus I will do this
without thinking when I want to see something off the right edge of
the screen. I've now found that at least I can make the effect of this
not as irritating as the default behavior of scrolling back through
the history.

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Gabor

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <GLSdnaP5_r5lsgnP...@mozilla.org>, Chris Luck
<ch...@bvhg.freeXYZserve.co.uk> writes:
[]

>I don't have a tilt-wheel mouse but if the about:config setting
>'general.autoScroll' is set true (false by default) then Firefox
>does show a navigation button on wheel-press.

[]
Not really a Firefox question, but maybe it'll be allowed as I want to
use it in Firefox: how do you simulate wheel-press on a touchpad?
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[EE]

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
> In message <GLSdnaP5_r5lsgnP...@mozilla.org>, Chris Luck
> <ch...@bvhg.freeXYZserve.co.uk> writes:
> []
>> I don't have a tilt-wheel mouse but if the about:config setting
>> 'general.autoScroll' is set true (false by default) then Firefox
>> does show a navigation button on wheel-press.
> []
> Not really a Firefox question, but maybe it'll be allowed as I want to
> use it in Firefox: how do you simulate wheel-press on a touchpad?

If you have a Windows keyboard, use Ctrl-left-click, and if you have a
Mac keyboard, use Cmd-left-click. That does not work to close a tab,
but it does open links in a new tab.

[Chris Luck]

On 27/11/13 07:13, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

> Not really a Firefox question, but maybe it'll be allowed as I want
> to use it in Firefox: how do you simulate wheel-press on a touchpad?

I've been totally desktop oriented so I haven't a clue. I'll need to
expand my knowledge-base next year though so I'll make a note of EE's
response.

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Regards,
Chris Luck

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <U6mdnWX8muagqAvP...@mozilla.org>, EE

Thanks.

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clearly extremely healthy ...)

[Gabor]

ctrl-left-click simulates middle-click (or wheel-press) for _most_
operations, like open link in new tab. It does _not_ bring up the
mouse-scroll function, however - at least not in Windows XP.

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Gabor