Go back gesture on Mac OS X Lion

This is a problem with the operating system. Apparently it works on the magic mouse and the trackpad but not on the actual computers trackpad. I tried this out and it's correct. I have a magic mouse and a trackpad, the default 4 fingered swipe back and forward works on the bluetooth connected devices but not the actual laptop's trackpad. Hopefully Apple fixes this. I understand your pain because it was very comfortable, I browse all the time and it's sort of annoying having to break out my trackpad every time to use my laptop or having to press the back button as the windows users do.

Go to system preferences and under more gestures select from the drop down menu the option to swipe with two or three fingers to move between pages. You will be able to go back and forth pages with a three finger swipe in finder, app store, iphoto, firefox...etc and at the same time use the two finger swipe feature of OS lion on safari.

If you activate 3 finger swipe, the move gesture won't work anymore :-(

That's right if you choose the option two or three fingers to swipe between pages the n automatically the three finger full screen change to four ..

if move/drag by 3fingers & by double-pinch won't work anymore, how are people supposed to drag n drop without using two hands on a built-in trackpad? i somehow miss the logic in the gestures of lion (compared to snow leo).

I realised later that the three finger drag was unselected automatically. However my go back gesture still works. I can't figure out to get the three finger drag working without conflicting with the go back gesture and the four finger swip though.

honestly... this is bugged.

i put the gestures to three fingers, and it changes back to two.

i checked that there is no other gestures using three fingers sideways and it still changes back to two fingers.

and when it stayed sometimes... i cant really use it on the finder.... till after 3-4 attempts....

this is buggy...

and the pad feels less responsive and sensitive to gestures..

please fix it..

This is hopeless, and annoying, i'm going back to snow till this is fixed !!!!

Indeed, my speed in workflow is quite slower than with 10.6 (now pretty much the same like win7)

I kinda miss those nice details I had before & even more an update to fix things.

Going back though is no option for me. I think I sit it out just like I did with MS Vista... 😐

I am switching back to Safai until they fix this!

Ok, I have everything working except swiping between fullscreen apps.

1. Go to System Preferences --> Trackpad --> More Gestures

2. Uncheck Swipe between full-screen apps, Mission Control, App Expose, Launchpad, Show Desktop.

3. Set Swipe between pages to Swipe left or right with three fingers or Swipe with two or three fingers. Notice that you should be able to swipe back and forth with three fingers in Finder, but you can't drag with three fingers.

4. Go to System Preferences --> Trackpad --> Point & Click

5. Three finger drag should be disabled. Enable it. Notice now that four finger side swiping will go back and forth in Finder. Safari still retains scrolling left and right to go back and forth in history. But now, three finger dragging will work.

6. You can go back to System Preferences --> Trackpad --> More Gestures and enable Mission Control, App Expose, Launchpad, and Show Desktop. Don't enable Swipe between full-screen apps or else you'll undo everything you just did.

It's a small trade off, but I use Mission Control to see all my apps anyway.

Forgot to mention, make sure to enable Swipe between pages --> Scroll left or right with two fingers.

This method is still buggy. Like, if after you do all of this and four finger swiping appears to not be working, such as in Finder, scroll left and right with two fingers, and then try again with four fingers. It will work now. Really weird, but it works.

In Finder & iTunes you can still go back by holding the Option key pressend and swiping 4 fingers to the left.

It's somewhat confusing because in Safari you actually swipe to the right to go back now but oh well...I think it'd be cool if Finder had the same animation & gestures as Safari to go back and forth...