> How many people still want this feature? In these days, most pointing devices support horizontal scroll with tilt wheel or swipe gesture.
Well, since you asked, here's the history of my horizontal scrolling capability. First, my desktop still has a 1-dimensional wheel. After all, mice aren't the kind of gadget that have compelling reasons for people to upgrade them every six months. On the other hand, my laptop is my primary computer, and I've recently upgraded to one with two-finger scrolling (in 2D). In fact, I've even written a Firefox extension (Scrolling Gestures) to take advantage of the horizontal scrolling capability. As a result, I've been untrained from using shift+scrolling and this feature isn't as important to me as it was a year ago (when each of my computers had only 1D scrolling). > scrollable element implemented with JS is scroll normally with this patch Do you mean, it will appear to JavaScript like Shift+Up and down? Bear in mind that there are two separate events for capturing wheel events; one ignores the axis and the other does not. There is at least one webapp (pressdisplay.com) that requires shift+vertical scrolling because of this. Here's a JSfiddle that demonstrates this: http://jsfiddle.net/SXAUx/7/ . Also, for the axis-capable event, shift- scrolling in Chrome reports only horizontal wheel events (even for shift+horizontal). > And I'd like to know if other browsers have this feature? Chrome has this feature. It also works in some other software, at least on Linux, like Evince (the GNOME PDF viewer). I still think this feature is useful, even if I don't need it myself. However, I don't maintain Mozilla's scrolling code, so (speaking only for myself) if it's really too problematic to implement, I'm willing to concede. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1228250 Title: [Shift + Mouse-Scroll-Wheel] Does NOT Scroll Horizontally Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: In Progress Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: In Chromium, I can scroll horizontally using my mouse-wheel by holding down the shift key while scrolling the mouse wheel. Firefox is missing this very convenient page-navigation short-cut. Use Case: As my eyes age, I find myself always scaling up the web pages I read (by holding down crtl and scrolling my mouse wheel). Doing this, often makes the page exceed the width of my monitor (hiding the right-side of the text I want to read) and produces a horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the page. At this point, since I've already used ctrl-scroll-mouse-wheel to magnify the page, it would be wonderful if I could use shift-scroll- mouse-wheel to horizontally-scroll the magnified page and therefore center the (previously cropped) text that I am wanting to read. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: firefox 24.0+build1-0ubuntu0.13.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-30.44-generic 3.8.13.6 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-30-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: lonnie 2161 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: lonnie 2161 F...m pulseaudio BrokenPermissions: sessionstore.bak (0o600, wrong owner) BuildID: 20130911155223 Channel: Unavailable Date: Fri Sep 20 11:02:07 2013 ForcedLayersAccel: False IfupdownConfig: # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-06 (14 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) IpRoute: default via 192.168.24.1 dev eth0 proto static 192.168.24.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.24.198 metric 1 MarkForUpload: True PrefSources: prefs.js [Profile]/extensions/{b9db16a4-6edc-47ec-a1f4-b86292ed211d}/defaults/preferences/prefs-dwhelper.js ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=24.0/20130911155223 (In use) RelatedPackageVersions: google-talkplugin 4.5.3.0-1 icedtea-7-plugin 1.3.2-1ubuntu1.1 totem-mozilla 3.6.3-0ubuntu6 rhythmbox-mozilla 2.98-0ubuntu5 RunningIncompatibleAddons: False SourcePackage: firefox UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 04/14/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A09 dmi.board.name: 0P792H dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A09 dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.version: A09 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA09:bd04/14/2011:svnDellInc.:pnStudio1737:pvrA09:rvnDellInc.:rn0P792H:rvrA09:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA09: dmi.product.name: Studio 1737 dmi.product.version: A09 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. 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