Turn off swipe to navigate Back and Forward
When I swipe to the left, Firefox navigates Back & when I swipe to the right, Firefox navigates Forwards. It is VERY ANNOYING!!!! It's really easy to do this accidentally while scrolling around a large web page. When you go back, it deletes all data that was filled out on the web form causing DOUBLE the work. How do I turn it off please? Win 10, FF 142.0.1 64-Bit
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Hmm, I don't know why that doesn't work on mine; maybe it doesn't understand how many fingers I'm using. Here is how you can clear the Back and Forward actions. Hopefully just removing them will solve the problem and you won't need to assign a different action.
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk.
More info on about:config: Configuration Editor for Firefox. The moderators would like us to remind you that changes made through this back door aren't fully supported and aren't guaranteed to continue working in the future.
(2) In the search box in the page, type or paste browser.gesture.swipe and pause while the list is filtered. Firefox should display four preferences (down, left, right, up).
(3) Double-click the browser.gesture.swipe.left preference to display an editing field, delete its contents, then press Enter or click the blue check mark button to save the change.
(4) Repeat with the browser.gesture.swipe.right preference.
Any improvement?
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Hi, do you mean on a touchscreen, or on a touchpad, or on some other input device?
On the touchpad of the laptop. It is not a touchscreen. And it's a recent development, it never used to "swipe" or navigate if swiped left or right.
选择的解决方案
Hmm, I don't know why that doesn't work on mine; maybe it doesn't understand how many fingers I'm using. Here is how you can clear the Back and Forward actions. Hopefully just removing them will solve the problem and you won't need to assign a different action.
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk.
More info on about:config: Configuration Editor for Firefox. The moderators would like us to remind you that changes made through this back door aren't fully supported and aren't guaranteed to continue working in the future.
(2) In the search box in the page, type or paste browser.gesture.swipe and pause while the list is filtered. Firefox should display four preferences (down, left, right, up).
(3) Double-click the browser.gesture.swipe.left preference to display an editing field, delete its contents, then press Enter or click the blue check mark button to save the change.
(4) Repeat with the browser.gesture.swipe.right preference.
Any improvement?
Yep, that worked. It used to be off but the latest Firefox update deleted that user preference and reset it to broken. I did the Google search but nothing came up and there were no posts about the new about:config setting.
Thank you!
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