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Disable Firefox going back and forth in history when overscrolling horizontally (self.firefox)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by GentooPhysicist to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/332512

Whenever I accidentally scroll too far left or right in Firefox, it goes back or forth in my history, which is very annoying. How could I disable this?

EDIT: Fixed it by disabling the gestures. Thanks @[email protected]!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

According to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1111123 :

In the about:config page there's an option named middlemouse.contentLoadURL. If you set that to false, it seems to stop the middle mouse click from going back to the previous visited website.

[โ€“] GentooPhysicist 1 points 2 years ago

In my case it's specifically when I scroll horizontally, not when middle clicking on the page.