Why doesn't FireFox support touchpad scrolling of pages. This is very annoying!!

Glaring shortcoming in ease of use in not supporting ALPS touchpad scrolling on a laptop computer w/ Windows 7.

Philipp,
What you say works for me on Windows but not on mac. On windows, firefox plays h.264 encoded html5 videos using system's inbuilt decoders. But same does not seem to be true for mac?
More details:
- Tried this on mac 10.7.4 and 10.8.4, firefox version: 22
- Both give a warning message in error console: "Content-type" of "video/mp4" is not supported.
- Exactly same content type works on FF on Windows
This is how I am using video element in my page:
<video src="/sample.mp4" class="vid" width="550" height="400" controls autoplay />
Any info on this?

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