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Move between pages in Firefox with new PowerBooks System
I noticed this on the new 2005 PowerBooks ... if you are using FireFox (maybe other browsers), try siding your fingers left to right versus up and down to get a "page back" and "page forward" command. Gotta love Apple sometimes.

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Move between pages in Firefox with new PowerBooks
Authored by: rotero on Mar 28, '05 10:05:42AM
I've noticed this behavior in Firefox 1.0 and 1.0.1 (sepecifically the optimized builds found here) on my 1GHz TiBook, so I think it's the newer versions of the browser rather than the new trackpads. Personally, I find it very annoying but there doesn't seem to be a way to turn it off.

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Move between pages in Firefox with new PowerBooks
Authored by: SeattleSeth on Mar 28, '05 10:24:53AM

you can modify this by using the about:config option. Scroll down and change:
*mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action => 0
*mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.sysnumlines => true

that's it, no more horizontal scrolling.

I believe there was a hint about this already too.



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Move between pages in Firefox with new PowerBooks
Authored by: arthuregg on Mar 29, '05 03:17:16PM

Try:

System Preferences/Keyboard and Mouse/Trackpad

Turn off "Allow Horizontal Scrolling"

Works pretty well for me :)



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Move between pages in Firefox with new PowerBooks
Authored by: enderai on Mar 28, '05 10:23:57AM

from http://www-users.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de/~razzfazz/

Finally, FireFox users should note that FireFox by default is set to interpret any horizontal scrolling as forward/back....This can lead to unintentional jumping between pages. Fortunately, FireFox' default behavior can be changed as follows:

go to about:config (i.e. type it in FireFox' address field)

set mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action to 0

set mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines to false

play around with the mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.numlines and mousewheel.withnokey.numlines values until you're satisfied with the scrolling speed



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Move between pages in Firefox with new PowerBooks
Authored by: momerath on Mar 28, '05 07:01:13PM

It's the same effect as shift-scroll, which is equivalent to "sideways scroll" in virtually any app but Firefox.



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Move between pages in Firefox with new PowerBooks
Authored by: Craigriver on Mar 28, '05 08:42:29PM

I'd just like to move the print horizontally(using the trackpad) to read the charactures to the right just out of view. Does anyone know how to do this?



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Move between pages in Firefox with new PowerBooks
Authored by: ms_t_rie on Mar 29, '05 04:16:24PM

If you disable the move between pages feature, then it will do what you're looking for instead. This also works if you're using iScroll2 on the pre-2005 Powerbooks :) Personally, I prefer it do horizontal scrolling instead of page movement, it has been tested and it works :)

Rie



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Move between pages in Firefox with new PowerBooks
Authored by: feste12 on Mar 29, '05 02:38:00AM

Two points:

1) This also works on the newer iBook G4 models if you've enabled the two finger scroll method.

2) I'm not sure how practical it would be, but I think it'd be interesting to see someone take advantage of the new PowerBook tilt mechanism for page navigation. Imagine, while the laptop is sitting on your lap slightly tilting it to the left or right with your knees to move back and forth between pages.



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