Can I use horizontal scroll to switch between tabs?
I find it useful to switch between tabs with the horizontal scroll wheel of my mouse. Can I configure Firefox in this way?
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Apparently FireGestures does not support horizontal scrolling directly if you can't get it to work. I have no local means of testing it, as no one I know owns a mouse with horizontal scrolling. FireGestures does provide alternatives (I use tab row scrolling), however, and supports scripting if you want to try and use the technical information provided by cor-el.
One more avenue would be to use the mouse's own software like Logitech Setpoint or Microsoft Intellipoint to set the horizontal scrolling to execute the FF hotkey combo Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDown. This would override native scrolling, however.
You can leave feedback at https://input.mozilla.org/en-GB/feedback/ if you'd like to see this functionality implemented. I think you're better off trying to get an add-on to do it though, as horizontal scrolling seems to remain a very niche feature.
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You can look at this extension to see if you can use this extension:
- Tab Wheel Scroll: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tab-wheel-scroll/
Thank you, this is a useful extension, but not exactly what I need.
I'm not aware of an extension that supports this feature to use the horizontal mouse scroll wheel to switch between tabs. That is why I proposed the extension.
You would need to have the 'button' to emulate these commands:
- gBrowser.mTabContainer.advanceSelectedTab(-1,true);
- gBrowser.mTabContainer.advanceSelectedTab(1,true);
Yes, I believe, this is the right way of solving my issue.
But actually I have no idea how to send commands to my browser. May be you can give me some example? Thank you in advance!
Otherwise I can mark this question as solved and create another question about sending the commands.
Hi there. I don't know of any way to do this natively in Firefox, but Firegestures, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/firegestures/, supports wheel gestures, rocker gestures, and tab gestures with the wheel. You could see if one of these suits you.
Use the Advanced tab: http://www.xuldev.org/firegestures/images/options3.png?ver=1.7.
Thank you, Phoxuponyou! I have tried to use firegestures, but I couldn't find a gesture, which corresponds to the horizontal scroll wheel of my mouse.
May be you can advise me, how to find this gesture?
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Apparently FireGestures does not support horizontal scrolling directly if you can't get it to work. I have no local means of testing it, as no one I know owns a mouse with horizontal scrolling. FireGestures does provide alternatives (I use tab row scrolling), however, and supports scripting if you want to try and use the technical information provided by cor-el.
One more avenue would be to use the mouse's own software like Logitech Setpoint or Microsoft Intellipoint to set the horizontal scrolling to execute the FF hotkey combo Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDown. This would override native scrolling, however.
You can leave feedback at https://input.mozilla.org/en-GB/feedback/ if you'd like to see this functionality implemented. I think you're better off trying to get an add-on to do it though, as horizontal scrolling seems to remain a very niche feature.
Thank you once more!
I will do both: leave a feedback and try to solve my issue by making a script in my OS (Ubuntu).
Alright; you're welcome, and the best of luck in your quest!