this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
6 points (87.5% liked)

Firefox

18085 readers
1591 users here now

A place to discuss the news and latest developments on the open-source browser Firefox

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
6
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]
8 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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]!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have this behavior on desktop specifically on the laptop trackpad's 2finger swipe gesture, which seems to be used for both scrolling as well as back/forward. I do not have this behavior on other input devices' methods for scrolling (e.g. mouse wheel horizontal scroll).

You can disable the touchpad gestures via about:config: https://www.instructables.com/Customizing-multitouch-gestures-in-Firefox/

[โ€“] GentooPhysicist 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks, that fixed it indeed!