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Is there a track pad gesture to switch browser tabs in full screen mode?

Hi there,


I am trying to find a trackpad gesture to switch tabs in Safari or Chrome.


Please advise?


Thanks,

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Jul 20, 2011 5:33 PM

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Posted on Jul 28, 2012 10:08 PM

Yes, there is a trackpad gesture to switch between tabs in the new Safari. Pinch-in, with 2 fingers, as if you wanted to zoom out. I figured it out on accident. Hope this helps! Solved my problem!

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Jun 2, 2013 1:34 PM in response to debeenus

You can use Better Touch Tool to assign quite crazy gestures/keyboard combinations to different actions. I just added tiptap-left and tiptap-right (tiptap is a gesture when you touch trackpad with one finger and tap it with another).

All you need to do is to choose desired gesture from the list and assign "Send Keyboard shortcut to specific application" action which should trigger "Ctrl+Tab" and "Ctrl+Shift+Tab" keyboard events.

Aug 13, 2013 12:04 AM in response to debeenus

Using the app BetterTouch Tool, you can assign any gesture you want. What I personally did was turn off app expose in System Preferences, then assign the 4-finger swipe down gesture to Safari's CMD-Shift-\ (forward slash) which is the keyboard shortcut to see all tabs.


It works beautifully. I am assuming Chrome has a keyboard shortcut to view all tabs at once as well - I personally use Safari so I dont know for sure, but if it does, you can use BTT to assign it such.

Is there a track pad gesture to switch browser tabs in full screen mode?

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