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Scrolling:

<comment type="annoying">Works for me.</comment>

Roll the mouse and I get a vertical scroll.

Linux whatever, firefox=latest pushed update from whenever

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On a laptop without any sort of mouse wheel / scrolling capabilities. It sucks -- pressing space doesn't scroll to the next page. Page up and page down don't work either.

Win 10, FF 70.0.1 left and right cursor control keys work fine.

Linux, FF 70.0.1, and left / right cursor keys work.. but only if I click on the content first. I have no idea where focus is when the page loads, but it's not where I want it.

Damn, I didn't think of your use case. I'm on an iMac/MBP and use the Magic Mouse as my primary input device.

I should add a button and/or keyboard shortcut to disable the horizontal scrolling.

I use the Magic Trackpad and had a bit of a different experience than others suggested, but I still couldn't scroll all the way (I had to go the actual scrollbars)

I think adding a toggle will be the best way forward. Thanks for sharing your experience!

I don't have a disability but plenty of people do. Not everyone can use a mouse, and that's a fairly important thing to remember in UX design.

Thanks for adding other options for scrolling!

I’ll certainly remember this moving forward!

I had a similarly frustrating UX with an external trackpad.

It takes me 26 flicks of my scroll wheel to show a single column. Given the content, each column should be about 3 flicks max.

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