Firefox, by default, seems to be very braindead about horizontal scrolling. It goes back/foreward by default. I want it to scroll. To do this, you need to make two changes to your configuration.

Go to 'about:config' in your URL bar in Firefox. If you've never done this before, literally type 'about:config' in the URL bar and hit enter. This will bring up a list of user settings. In the search bar, type 'mouse' and change the following values:

mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action - Set this to '1'
mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.numlines - Set this to '1'

The action defaults to 2, which means go forward/back. Annoying.

The numlines defaults to -1, which scrolls left when you use the mouse to attempt scrolling right. Setting it to 1 will make it scroll left when you scroll left, as it should.

Voila! Horizontal scrolling should now work properly.

Lots of hours were spent today preparing the new moused and psm code for import into the FreeBSD source tree. I don't have a commit bit to CVS, so I'll have to wait on having it committed. This wait time will probably be spent fixing bugs, writing a decent rc script, and improving configuration options.

This update is only known to work for -CURRENT. The patch can be found on the newpsm project page. I had a friend test the patch against 6.0-RELEASE, and it seemed to apply cleanly with the exception that patch(1) got confused about sys/sys/mouse.h. Tell patch to not attempt to reverse-apply the patch, then tell it yes for trying the patch anyway. No guarantees if it doesn't build.

You can find almost all the information you need on the newpsm project page. If you find bugs, are interested in helping test, or have questions or comments, please contact me :)