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Posted 09 April 2005 - 10:10 PM

Hi All,
Maybe it's something everyone has already noticed with the new two finger scrolling trackpads, but if while using your web browser you place two fingers in the center of the trackpad and make a short move to the left or right of the trakpad, the browser will nove forward (to the right) or backwards (to the left) a page. So far I have only been able to duplicate this in Firefox, not Safari.
Pretty cool bug or feature,
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Posted 10 April 2005 - 04:31 AM

way cool award winning feature.
not a bug.
the trackpad will two finger scroll vertical and horizontal.
it works in safari if your window is narrower than what it should be. at least mine does. I have the 12inch and as i have increased text for my poor old eyes, it's common for me to scroll left or right while viewing some pages.
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Posted 10 April 2005 - 07:31 AM

Macnuke,
I understand that you can scroll left and right within a page, but Firefox will actually, go back or forward a page in the browser, not just scroll to the left or right in a page.
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Posted 10 April 2005 - 07:49 AM

heh heh.. i misundertook your previous statement.
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Posted 10 April 2005 - 09:03 AM

I'm not sure if it's intentional or not, but Firefox chooses to interpret horizontal scroll events as page forward and back. There's actually a way to force it to interpret these events in the standard way for those who don't like that behavior.

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