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 Solution: give 'advanced' users the option to have a separate, customizable fullscreen toolbar and not simply use the navigation bar (which is perfectly fine for less demanding users).
 This will also let them use icons which they placed on a toolbar other than the navigation bar (in normal mode).
+== Using the mouse-wheel to horizontally scroll ==
+The current default behaviour when scrolling the mouse-wheel while holding the shift key is to traverse the history of visited pages. I think this is rarely useful because 1) the only time you would want to use this feature is if you want to go waaaaaay back/forward in history but you would NOT want to do it with a mouse-wheel because you would probably still want to get to a certain point in history and 2) it is a "trial and error" process, you don't get a visual cue of where in history you get to, instead you have to wait for the page to render before you get to know if you've gotten where you were supposed to and 3) if you by accident traverse past a point in history than what was intended (which is easily done) there is no easy way of knowing (unless you have a memory of an elephant) and 4) there is still a better (default) behaviour available and that is to resize the page/text size.
+But I would suggest an even better alternative, which is not possible at this moment, and that is to being able to scroll horizontally with the mouse-wheel. Preferably using the shift key to toggle which scrollbar to scroll, just using the mouse-wheel scrolls vertically and holding shift scrolls horizontally. Just like resizing the text it's visual and there is no question of what is going on (and therefore better ;).