"The problem that really drove me crazy though was the default touchpad functionality. Firefox would move pages Back and Forward in History just by touching the lower bottom of the touchpad. This was extremely annoying. And so I disabled it by replacing the Synaptics section on /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the following:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "LeftEdge" "1700"
Option "RightEdge" "5300"
Option "TopEdge" "1700"
Option "BottomEdge" "10000"
Option "FingerLow" "25"
Option "FingerHigh" "30"
# set MaxTapTime to "0" to disable tap-to-click
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
Option "MaxTapMove" "220"
Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"
Option "MinSpeed" "0.06"
Option "MaxSpeed" "0.12"
Option "AccelFactor" "0.0010"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection
(Warning: if you are going to use the above snippet make sure you change some of the "Left/Right/Top/Bottom Edge" numbers because each touchpad model is different). "
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