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One of the things I love about Macbook is that it has this nifty two finger scrolling enabled by default. But thanks to the awesome synaptics linux driver you can get that on any ubuntu system too as long as your touchpad isn’t too old. There are countless tutorials on that on the web, however there is one stupid pitfall.

If you enable two finger scrolling you will most likely hit a “feature” of Firefox. It will go forward and backward in history under some strange conditions. It may be useful if one can figure out how to trigger it, but the better way is to disable it like it’s on OS X. Set the following settings in your about:config:

mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action = 0
mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.sysnumlines = true

Just for completeness here my xorg.conf settings:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
        Option          "MaxTapTime"            "120"
        Option          "MaxTapMove"            "150"
        Option          "VertTwoFingerScroll"   "true"
        Option          "HorizTwoFingerScroll"  "true"
        Option          "VertEdgeScroll"        "false"
        Option          "HorizEdgeScroll"       "false"
        Option          "TapButton1"            "1"
        Option          "TapButton2"            "3"
        Option          "TapButton3"            "2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "SHMConfig"             "true"
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