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How to disable this navigation shortcut

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Denys replied
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ram00081000

the go back to previous page shortcut is annoying and it kept messing with my work and I want to disable it I use touchpad and accidentally goes back to previous page all the time and sometimes I have to redo my unsaved work because of this. Please disable this arrow in a blue circle thing

the go back to previous page shortcut is annoying and it kept messing with my work and I want to disable it I use touchpad and accidentally goes back to previous page all the time and sometimes I have to redo my unsaved work because of this. Please disable this arrow in a blue circle thing
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Denys
Denys
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Hi,

You should be able to do it as follows:

  1. Enter about:config in the address bar and press Enter.
  2. Click Accept.
  3. Search for browser.gesture.swipe.left
  4. Click the Edit Fx71aboutconfig-EditButton button and change the value to cmd_scrollLeft or just an empty string.
  5. Click the Save Fx71aboutconfig-Checkmark button.

Note: I used ChatPGT to get this info, but after testing it seems to work fine for me. There's a corresponding pref for the right swipe (browser.gesture.swipe.right, the value would be cmd_scrollRight) which you can also change, but in my case it wasn't necessary.

Buza umbuzo

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