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Disable Firefox going back and forth in history when overscrolling horizontally (self.firefox)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You mean on firefox mobile?

I don’t know about the history, but on firefox mobile there is a setting to let you switch from one tab to another when sliding left or right. Maybe you are speaking of that? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-gestures-in-firefox-android#w_switch-tabs-by-swiping-the-address-bar

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I honestly have no idea what they're talking about. Neither desktop nor mobile have this behavior. Maybe he's talking about the Android gesture that replaced the back button when they removed the bottom buttons?

[–] GentooPhysicist 1 points 1 year ago

I'm talking about the Firefox build on my laptop, I'll make a screen capture when I'm home

[–] GentooPhysicist 1 points 1 year ago

No, I mean on my laptop. When I scroll horizontally and I overscroll, it either goes forwards or backwards in my browser history for that tab.