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I hold down option and swipe up or down with two fingers on my trackpad, and Firefox is navigating forward and back in history. How do I disable this behavior? (I am using version 57.0 on Mac OX 10.13.1)

I have tried disabling the Mac system preference for "swipe between pages", and I have tried changing the value of browser.gesture.swipe.left and right to cmd_scrollLeft and Right (as described here). Neither of these solutions addressed my issue.

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I found the solution:

After going into about:config, set mousewheel.with_alt.action to 0.

Kamil Maciorowski
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You never know if you're going to scroll the page or to navigate in the history. Sometime your need to configure a page with parameters/choices, then you try to scroll left, and instead of that you just navigate to the previously displayed URL, your configuration is deleted. I find this choice to return to the previous URL not particularly smart, nor very useful in the first place.

To disable swiping in the history:

  • Go to settings at URL about:config.
  • Select the group of gesture setting by searching browser.gesture or browser.gesture.swipe.
  • Edit the two gestures browser.gesture.swipe.left (value is Browser:BackOrBackDuplicate) and browser.gesture.swipe.right (Browser:ForwardOrForwardDuplicate)

Delete the existing values, leaves the fields blank. You're done. In case you need to restore the previous values, no need to remember them, just use the Reset button at the end of the line (left curved arrow)

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