One of my (few) Raves 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.
[new firefox]: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=5415
[alternate trackpad driver]: http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/sidetrack/
[lxr]: http://lxr.mozilla.org/
[what the numbers mean]: http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/modules/libpref/src/init/all.js#692
[a hint]: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040617000005758