Weird touchpad behavior in Firefox/mozilla on FC5

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Kedar Patankar wrote:

> Hi,

> I see weird behavior in mozilla or firefox on FC5 (as well as FC4) when 
> I use the touchpad on my laptop. When I try to move the mouse pointer 
> around in the browser window, all of a sudden the browser will go to the 
> previous page - just as if I had pressed on the "Go back one page" 
> arrow.

> I haven't seen this on my desktop which is a Sempron box with PS2 mouse. 
> I have seen this on my AMD64 laptop with built in touchpad (emachines 
> M6805) with FC4 and now with FC5. It definitely did not happen on FC2.

> Anyone seen anything like this? Any pointers?

It's the new (since FC2) Synaptics touchpad driver, which can scroll along 
the right and bottom edges as well as other things.  Practice a bit, or 
see /usr/share/doc/synaptics*/INSTALL for settings.


> Regards/Kedar.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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