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sahar

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Registered: 2024-11-25

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how to enable horizontal scroll for going to previous page in firefox

I didn't have this problem with gnome so I think this is about some sort of default configuration in xfce, I already enabled natural scrolling and horizontal scrolling with two fingers I don't know what option exactly I should check in about:config in firefox for enabling this.
any help is really appreciated because this is becoming so annoying for me.

kwizzz

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Registered: 2024-11-10

Posts: 16

Re: how to enable horizontal scroll for going to previous page in firefox

You need to set the following environment variable (eg in bashrc):
MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1

lilygreen

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Registered: 2024-12-02

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Re: how to enable horizontal scroll for going to previous page in firefox

Good tip! I've been looking for a solution to this for a while.

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sahar

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Registered: 2024-11-25

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Re: how to enable horizontal scroll for going to previous page in firefox

You need to set the following environment variable (eg in bashrc):
MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1

thanks I tried that but it didn't work

Last edited by sahar (2024-12-03 14:41:16)

kwizzz

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Registered: 2024-11-10

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Re: how to enable horizontal scroll for going to previous page in firefox

Strange. What OS, and how is Firefox installed?
If natively, then it should work.
To rule out some environment variable troubles, can you try the following:
Close all Firefox instances
Open terminal window and type in:
MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 firefox
on a single line exactly as is.
And let me know if that works.

(Sorry for the multiple posts. Mobile phone and guest WiFi… I deleted the other redundant ones)

Last edited by kwizzz (2024-12-03 17:53:14)

sahar

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Registered: 2024-11-25

Posts: 3

Re: how to enable horizontal scroll for going to previous page in firefox

Strange. What OS, and how is Firefox installed?
If natively, then it should work.
To rule out some environment variable troubles, can you try the following:
Close all Firefox instances
Open terminal window and type in:
MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 firefox
on a single line exactly as is.
And let me know if that works.

(Sorry for the multiple posts. Mobile phone and guest WiFi… I deleted the other redundant ones)

really sorry I didn't read your post properly that's why I didn't answer...
I'm using arch and Firefox is installed with pacman
I did it, no output in terminal and still it's not enabled...

Last edited by sahar (2024-12-06 14:28:55)

kwizzz

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Registered: 2024-11-10

Posts: 16

Re: how to enable horizontal scroll for going to previous page in firefox

Oh, just noticed that you replied to my last post.  Strange that I did not notice...

...anyways...

I had the same issue on a debian install.  First, I put

MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1
export MOZ_USE_XINPUT2

in my ~/.bashrc (and in desperation also into my ~/.profile), but firefox did not scroll smoothly.

Only until I put the same lines into ~/.xsessionrc (which does not exist by default).

Maybe this would work on arch, too?