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When I scroll along the page or some scrollbox with two fingers on MacBook Pro touchpad, and it can be no longer scrolled to the left, Firefox decides I want to go back in history.

What can I do to disable history navigation using two-finger swipe in Firefox 17? I'm happy with using Backspace for going backwards, and wiping out all the text I was writing somewhere in some forms when I accidentally scroll more than I'm allowed is really frustrating.

Lambart
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toriningen
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I like the following solution better (than the existing answer) because it only affects Firefox:

  1. In Firefox, go to "about:config"
  2. Change the value for "browser.gesture.swipe.left" to "cmd_scrollLeft" (instead of "Browser:BackOrBackDuplicate")
  3. Change the value for "browser.gesture.swipe.right" to "cmd_scrollRight" (instead of "Browser:ForwardOrForwardDuplicate")

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UPDATE:

There is a native way to do this. Go to System Preferences / Trackpad / More Gestures and deactivate the checkbox for "Swipe between pages" (first checkbox). This works at least for Mountain Lion.

The old, non-functional answer was:

I do not know of a native option in OSX (ML, 10.8.x), but there is a nice trick to do it:

Download the free BetterTouchTool. It lets you map a huge amount of functions to trackpad & mouse gestures as well as keyboard shortcuts. You can set "No action" and you can decide, which applications should know your new custom gesture/shortcut.

So I just mapped the two finger swipe (left & right) to "No action" only for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Sleipnir.

Hugely useful and it will solve your problem.

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Oliver
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