OT: mouse gestures

[Robin Haswell]

You need to remove the mouse gestures extension from Tool -> Extensions. However no distro I'm aware 
of ships with this extension by default so I dunno how you've picked it up.

As for "and everything else for that matter", if you want a completely featureless browser, I 
recommend Epiphany from the GNOME project. You'll dirty your system with some gnomelibs a bit, but 
probably not too many:

rob at serpentine:~$ aptitude show epiphany-browser
Package: epiphany-browser
New: yes
State: not installed
Version: 2.14.1-0ubuntu2
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Maintainer: Jordi Mallach <jordi at debian.org>
Uncompressed Size: 10.9M
Depends: libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0), libaudiofile0 (>=
          0.2.3-4), libavahi-client3 (>= 0.6.0), libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.9),
          libavahi-glib1 (>= 0.6.0), libbonobo2-0 (>= 2.13.0), libbonoboui2-0 (>=
          2.5.4), libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), libcairo2 (>= 1.0.2-2), libdbus-1-2 (>=
          0.60), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.60), libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.35) | libesd0
          (>= 0.2.35), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.3.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.10-1),
          libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0.2), libgconf2-4 (>= 2.13.5), libgcrypt11 (>= 1.2.2),
          libglade2-0 (>= 1:2.5.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.10.0), libgnome-desktop-2
          (>= 2.11.1), libgnome-keyring0 (>= 0.4.3), libgnome2-0 (>= 2.8.0),
          libgnomecanvas2-0 (>= 2.11.1), libgnomeprint2.2-0 (>= 2.12.1),
          libgnomeprintui2.2-0 (>= 2.12.1), libgnomeui-0 (>= 2.13.0),
          libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 2.13.92-0ubuntu4), libgnutls12 (>= 1.2.5),
          libgpg-error0 (>= 1.1), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libice6, libjpeg62,
          liblaunchpad-integration0 (>= 0.0patch26), liborbit2 (>= 1:2.10.0),
          libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.12.1), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.8rel), libpopt0 (>= 1.7),
          libsm6, libstartup-notification0 (>= 0.8-1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.0.2-4),
          libtasn1-2 (>= 0.2.13), libx11-6, libxau6, libxcursor1 (> 1.1.2),
          libxext6, libxfixes3, libxi6, libxinerama1, libxml2 (>= 2.6.23),
          libxrandr2, libxrender1, libxslt1.1 (>= 1.1.15), python2.4 (>= 2.3.90),
          zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), firefox (>= 1.5), gnome-icon-theme (>= 2.9.90),
          iso-codes, gconf2 (>= 2.12.1-4ubuntu1)

However you could probably achieve the same effect by removing all extensions from Firefox.

Oh that reminds me, there is another epiphany-like browser which dates back a long way, could also 
be a viable alternative - Galeon:

Package: galeon
New: yes
State: not installed
Version: 2.0.1-1ubuntu2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/gnome
Maintainer: Loic Minier <lool at dooz.org>
Uncompressed Size: 1589k
Depends: libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0), libbonobo2-0 (>=
          2.13.0), libbonoboui2-0 (>= 2.5.4), libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), libcairo2 (>=
          1.0.2-2), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.3.0), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0.2), libgconf2-4
          (>= 2.11.1), libglade2-0 (>= 1:2.5.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.9.3),
          libgnome-desktop-2 (>= 2.11.1), libgnome-keyring0 (>= 0.4.3),
          libgnome2-0 (>= 2.8.0), libgnomecanvas2-0 (>= 2.11.1), libgnomeui-0 (>=
          2.13.0), libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 2.13.92-0ubuntu4), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0),
          libice6, liborbit2 (>= 1:2.10.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.11.99), libpopt0
          (>= 1.7), libsm6, libstartup-notification0 (>= 0.8-1), libstdc++6 (>=
          4.0.2-4), libx11-6, libxcursor1 (> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxfixes3,
          libxi6, libxinerama1, libxml2 (>= 2.6.23), libxrandr2, libxrender1,
          zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), firefox (>= 1.5), procps, galeon-common
Recommends: gnome-icon-theme (>= 1.1.3-1), yelp, scrollkeeper, iso-codes,
             capplets
Suggests: mozilla-bonobo
Replaces: galeon-beta, galeon-snapshot, galeon-nautilus, galeon-common
Provides: www-browser
Description: GNOME web browser for advanced users
  A standards compliant web browser, which integrates well with the GNOME desktop
  environment.  It does not include an email client, irc bot, website designer
  etc., therefore has a moderate resource usage.  Internally the program uses
  Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine to display the web pages so is fully feature
  complete and standards compliant, as well as rendering pages quickly.

  Homepage: <http://galeon.sourceforge.net/>



-Rob



Joe Klemmer wrote:
> 	Sorry for the annoying off-topic question but I'm having a horrible
> time and you guys are my best resource for things like this.
> 
> Problem:
> 	Mouse gestures are enabled in Firefox.  My manual dexterity is, well,
> let's say not very good and leave it at that.  Anyway, I have great
> problems with Firefox because it keeps interpreting random movements and
> spasms as gesture commands and I end up flipping around all over the
> place on the web.
> 
> Question:
> 	Is there any way to turn off gestures in Firefox (and everything else,
> for that matter)?
> 
> Much appreciation for any help on this,
> Joe
> 
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