AAAAAaaah! I am having serious issues with posting to this website. Since I am a new Mac user I have been using Safari, the Mac browser. It is not WYSIWYG so TypePad doesn't give me the neat little link and picture buttons. I downloaded Firefox since that is WYSIWYG and has all the nifty TypePad features. The problem is that the way the touchpad is set up to scroll up and down and right and left in every program does something different in Firefox. If my finger mistakenly touches the touchpad in the wrong way the browser backtracks to the previous webpage and I lose my entire post. This has happened a few times and I get so frustrated that I never post what I meant to. I've tried to find settings in Firefox to turn off the backtrack via the touchpad and I can't find a disable option and don't want to disable it in Tiger as that will affect every other program. Stupid Mac.
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09 September 2005
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I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. I have never used Safari, Firefox or anything else you are currently in a snit about. We use Explorer.
Posted by: Mrs. Peperium | 09 September 2005 at 22:53
You were warned.
Posted by: Blimpish | 09 September 2005 at 23:33
From http://www.vectified.com/2004/11/horizontal-scrolling-in-firefox.php:
Horizontal Scrolling in Firefox
I've set Firefox to my default browser since the final 1.0 release. I'm giving it a good hardy try over Safari. There have been a couple of issues here and there but so far none of them were show stoppers until I tried to scroll horizontally on a web page with my MS tilting scroll wheel. Instead of scrolling, the forward and back actions were activated, arghhh!!!
Well after some searching on google I found the answer at the awesome macosxhints.com site! Hopefully this will be helpful to others out there:
In Firefox, type about:config into the address bar and hit return. This gives you a list of all possible configuration options. The ones we want are those that start with mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey. Make the following changes by double-clicking the appropriate option in the list:
* mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action => 0
* mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.sysnumlines => true
Works for me!
Posted by: Robert Thornton | 10 September 2005 at 03:56
There is a litttle $30 utility called "iKey" that is a joy -- and will probably solve this problem.
http://www.scriptsoftware.com/ikey/
It is a macro generator. Define a key or key combination and it can do most anything... change the keyboard mapping; open a program; type a word, paragraph, whatever...
A Mac "must have."
Posted by: tede | 10 September 2005 at 04:31
Super! Of course, I was too lazy to Google it in the middle of the night when I was going through my horizontal scrolling crisis. Glad to hear that it isn't just me.
Posted by: Misspent | 10 September 2005 at 05:48
I rest my case! Did I not state my opinion of Apple a long time ago? I was burned by Apple and now the sins of the father are suffered by the son!
Posted by: POPS | 10 September 2005 at 09:48
You think you're so clever, POPS.
Posted by: Misspent | 10 September 2005 at 12:44
Oh, fer...
If you really want to run Apple ][ software on your new Mac...
http://www.wbwip.com/a2web/a2emul.html
Posted by: | 10 September 2005 at 16:08
There are no stupid Macs, only stupid... well, you know the rest.
Posted by: Inkling | 11 September 2005 at 06:14