Shift+Scroll to scroll horizontally is still missing. This might seem like a small feature to have, but it actually has profound impact.
First of all, I belive the majority of mice still only have a vertical scroll wheel. At our university, every mouse falls into that category. However, the major problem is providing a consistent interaction with horizontally scrolling containers across platforms/browsers. If one has to rely on a vertical scroll wheel, the approach would be listening for the `wheel` event and use `event.deltaY` for setting `scrollLeft` when `event.shiftKey === true`. Now this won’t lead to pleasent results right away since these deltas yield vastly different values across devices/browsers. Is it a trackpad? Does it fire the event very often? Is the delta very big or very small? Is the inertial scrolling behavior? In short, re-implementing scrolling behavior is very hard. Turning a scroll wheel once results in roughly the same scrolling distance when comparing Chrome and Firefox. However the events’ delta values are different. What does this have to do with this issue? Since there is no Shift+Scroll for horizontal scrolling, providing users with a way to do so also requires to re-implemented scrolling. Users need a way of interacting with horizontally overflowing elements by scrolling natively. -- 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 Mozilla Firefox: Fix Released Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Fix Released 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1228250/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
