SGTM. BTW, bug 143038 was filed 16 years ago. Is that a bugzilla record for
oldest fixed bug?

That is, do I owe you another steak? :-)


On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Masayuki Nakano <masay...@d-toybox.com>
wrote:

> From some users who use legacy mice which supports only vertical wheel, we
> have a request to support horizontal scroll with vertical wheel operation
> with a modifier.
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143038
>
> Now, legacy add-ons have gone since 57 and it may be difficult to override
> default action of wheel events with WebExtensions, it is the time to
> support horizontal scroll with vertical wheel operation with Shift key.
>
> This will be enabled in default settings except on macOS.  The reason why
> we don't need to use this feature on macOS is, macOS generates horizontal
> wheel event if user uses legacy mouse and pressing Shift key.
>
> And default action of wheel with Alt key is changed to history navigation
> which is default action of wheel with Shift key in current release build.
>
> So, now, we have consistent behavior between Firefox for macOS and the
> others.
>
> Note that this feature won't be exposed to attributes of "wheel" events.
> This is just a default action change and same behavior as Chrome.
>
> --
> Masayuki Nakano <masay...@d-toybox.com>
> Software Engineer, Mozilla
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