Jun 17, '04 12:31:00PM • Contributed by: TheMystic
The latest versions of Camino (0.8b) and Firefox (0.9) both use the horizontal scroll wheel to move back and forward in your history. This can be very annoying when using uControl for trackpad scrolling, but fortunately, with a bit of hacking, the old behavior (using horizontal scroll to scroll horizontally) can be restored.
In Firefox, type about:config into the address bar and hit return. This gives you a list of all possible configuration options. The ones we want are those that start with mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey. Make the following changes by double-clicking the appropriate option in the list:
- mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action => 0
- mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.sysnumlines => true
In Camino, you have to edit the preferences file directly. Make sure Camino isn't running, then open ~/Library -> Application Support -> Camino/prefs.js in your favorite plain text editor and add the following two lines (with no line breaks):
user_pref("mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action", 0);
user_pref("mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.sysnumlines", true);
Then launch Camino. All should be working, with the horizontal scroll back to the way it was before.
