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Touchscreen not fully working in firefox

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scttgrd
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I have recently switched to Linux Mint 18.3 full time and now my touchscreen will not work properly on just Firefox. I can touch to select a link or open an item, but it will not move the page/scroll with touch. Touch works with every other browser and in all my system folders, so I know this issue is only with Firefox. I'm hoping there is a fix for this.

thank you.

I have recently switched to Linux Mint 18.3 full time and now my touchscreen will not work properly on just Firefox. I can touch to select a link or open an item, but it will not move the page/scroll with touch. Touch works with every other browser and in all my system folders, so I know this issue is only with Firefox. I'm hoping there is a fix for this. thank you.

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Shadow110
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HI, Enable touchscreen gestures https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox/Tweaks#Enable_touchscreen_gestures

Make sure dom.w3c_touch_events.enabled is either set to 1 (enabled) or 2 (default, auto-detect).

Run export MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 before launching Firefox. To make this change persistent, add that command to /etc/profile.d/firefox.sh

Your Linux community forum would be a better place to look I would think.

Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.

scttgrd
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Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, I have everything working well now. Now to get the rest of those extensions updated for Quantum.