Another thing I noticed about Firefox: Scrolling up and down a page very quickly with the mouse wheel will trigger the command 'Go Back' and 'Go Forward' respectively.
After reading some websites, I've found out that this is not a Firefox bug (therefore the title of this post is actually not justified) but rather a problem with xorg or something like that. Apparently this will occur in all applications with a horizontal scroll bar.
To prevent this from occuring in Firefox alone:
set mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action to 0 in about:config
Or edit the xorg.conf:
For my case, I edited this line:
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
into
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
## Note the absence of 6 and 7. Why they were there in the first place, I don't know. I only have one mouse wheel. At least, I think that 6 and 7 represent the second wheel (for horizontal scrolling?)
After reading some websites, I've found out that this is not a Firefox bug (therefore the title of this post is actually not justified) but rather a problem with xorg or something like that. Apparently this will occur in all applications with a horizontal scroll bar.
To prevent this from occuring in Firefox alone:
set mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action to 0 in about:config
Or edit the xorg.conf:
For my case, I edited this line:
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
into
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
## Note the absence of 6 and 7. Why they were there in the first place, I don't know. I only have one mouse wheel. At least, I think that 6 and 7 represent the second wheel (for horizontal scrolling?)
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