One of my (few) rants about the new Firefox, now that I’ve switched back, involved horizontal scrolling. Specifically, they bound it to something silly — history forward and history back. What can I say; install an alternate trackpad driver and you actually use horizontal scroll-wheel events to…uh…scroll.

So, naturally I checked about:config for the relevant prefs, and quickly found them…sort of. The default value for “mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action” is “2”. It didn’t occur to me immediately to use LXR to find out what the numbers mean (like it should have), but it did when I stumbled across a hint on the subject. Rock on (by setting that preference to “0”).

Don’t get me wrong — I like when I can set things how I want using the regular prefs dialog, but at least finding an obscure setting in about:config is an awful lot easier than doing the same in regedit.

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