touchpad problem- webpages just change for no reason

iv had my lovely netbolok about 3 weeks and been working perfect. but tonight its gone mad . the touch pad dosnt seem in sync with mouse. the web pages im browsing just dissapeer for no reason to the previous page then that previous page .
can i just reset it to factory settings to get rid of this nightmare behaviour , or is there something more simple the answer . hope someone can advise or help me !

 

Have you enabled mouse gestures in Firefox, perhaps? On a touchpad as small as that on a netbook, I find that mouse gestures which make sense on a larger machine just aren't manageable, and could be interpreted as random effects like going back a page!

 

would that make a diiference bearing in mind the touchpad has been working perfectly for almost a month till 24 hours ago. if yes how would i do this task please.

 

You would known if you'd enabled them - it needs an add-on so it's unliekly to happen by accident.

 

You've discovered a FF "feature". Horizontal scroll does a page back/forward by default. To turn it off:
type about:config into the url bar of FF
type horiz into the box labelled Filter
find the entry mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action and change the value to
-1
I originally hit this problem with a full sized trackpad, took me quite a while with Google to find the soluton.
Jerry

 

thanks "jerryp" realy appreciate your helpful comments. ill give this a try tomorrow . cheers !

 

hi "jerryp" touch wood alls well ! your fix seems to of cured my problem with the touchpad. thankyou very much !!!