[Bug 1228250] [NEW] [Shift + Mouse-Scroll-Wheel] Does NOT Scroll Horizontally

[Lonnie Lee Best]

Public bug reported:

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.

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug raring

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