How do you disable swipe history navigation in Chrome?

Question

On my Surface Pro, when I drag my finger across the browser window, Chrome will navigate back and forth through the browsing history.

How do I disable this feature?

score 30 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 19 '14 at 10:28

30

answered Nov 19 '14 at 10:28

Oliver Salzburg

score 11 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 02 '15 at 10:47

11

You can also pass

--overscroll-history-navigation=0

as startup parameter to chrome

answered Mar 02 '15 at 10:47

cholewa1992

score 4 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 02 '18 at 19:49

4

It works for MacOS to disabling of swiping.

Just run Terminal of MacOS and paste and run this command

defaults write com.google.Chrome AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool false

After that close chrome and run it again.

edited Aug 02 '18 at 19:49

Pierre.Vriens

answered Aug 02 '18 at 18:49

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 16 '21 at 17:52

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Updated: Q1 2021

This can be disabled on Windows by passing the following flag on the command line:

--disable-features="TouchpadOverscrollHistoryNavigation"

answered Mar 16 '21 at 17:52

jdgregson