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Swipes in Safari stop working

When using Safari in Mavericks, I can scroll up and down as usual with the 2-finger gestures, but if I try to do a 2-finger "back" swipe to go to the previous page that page freezes (can't scroll at all, no links respond and if try to click on the back/forward button, the page title and URL changes, but the page is still frozen as it was). I can go to another tab and navigate with the arrow keys, but all trackpad gesturing within Safari stops working. When I quit and relaunch Safari, all is back to usual. I deleted all Safari extensions, deleted all preference files, deactivated/reactivated the gesture in System Preferences and still acts the same. Any thoughts?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 22, 2013 5:03 PM

143 replies

Oct 24, 2013 7:40 PM in response to bouddi

Yep this worked. Swipes easily now between pages.

Exrebel

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Oct 24, 2013 10:24 PM in response to Edoardo Allievi

this worked for me too!

Oct 25, 2013 5:31 AM in response to Kristopher Ross

That problem is really annoying...

It only appears on my iMac (late 2012). Not on my MacBookPro.

But I wonder why this should be related to PRAM.... This must be a bug in Mavericks....

My current solution is just to restart the iMac.

ariton

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Oct 25, 2013 5:46 AM in response to Edoardo Allievi

Thanks Edoardo, GRAZIE MILLE!!! 🙂

Had the same problem, searched here, found your post... PROBLEM SOLVED!

pplano

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Oct 25, 2013 5:57 AM in response to bouddi

Thanks bouddi!

You solved my problem.

bouddi

Re: Swipes in Safari stop working

Oct 22, 2013 6:06 PM (in response to bouddi)

mmmmm .... weird

checked my Mouse settings in System Preferences and discovered that Mavericks had turned 'Swipe between pages' off seems all good now

Oct 25, 2013 6:58 AM in response to Kristopher Ross

This is not a PRAM-reset-fixable issue. Restarting or logging out fixes it only temporarily. Right now, scrolling in Calendar has stopped working (it had been working). I've reported this bug numerous times and it still has not been fixed. it is a bug. It is not related to BTT, etc as best I can tell.

Update: and as previously, without any rhyme or reason, scrolling in calendar has returned. It will likely disappear again, and then work again at some point in the future. This is not good. I suspect it has something to do with how certain processes are allocated (perhaps due to app nap?)

Marcvw11

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Oct 25, 2013 7:14 AM in response to Edoardo Allievi

Thanks Edoardo!!!! Works fine now. Don't know how you figured that out!!!

Oct 25, 2013 7:55 AM in response to Marcvw11

you're welcome...just red somewhere that trackpad and keyboard issues might be related to PRAM going crazy

Oct 25, 2013 8:02 AM in response to Edoardo Allievi

Doesn't fix it for me.

Oct 25, 2013 8:03 AM in response to pagemakers4

I can swipe back but on many sites the page then becomes unresponsive.

danflsr

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Oct 25, 2013 8:12 AM in response to pagemakers4

Let sum it up to here:

Gesture altering software (Jitouch, magicprefs, bettertouchtool) were mentioned a lot. I myself removed Jitouch from my system, did a PRAM reset and never looked back. The PRAM reset only worked AFTER removing the gesture sofware.

Other people with no such software were been able to fix their system also using the PRAM reset.

So overall, make sure you have no such software installed, and then try to do a PRAM reset.

Oct 25, 2013 8:18 AM in response to danflsr

I have no gesture software installed. PRAM reset doesn't fix it.

When I swipe back on some pages they lockup.

Oct 25, 2013 8:43 AM in response to pagemakers4

Same here, no pref panes or other gesture altering apps installed. Just started happening after two days of intensive usage of my macbook. Restart might temporarely fix it, but that is not an acceptable solution ofcourse.

Oct 25, 2013 9:09 AM in response to Edoardo Allievi

Resetting pram has fixed two finger swipe in safari but I can't now swipe from full screen safari back to the desktop - can anyone help

Oct 25, 2013 9:22 AM in response to boingboing58

I think we are taking about different things here.

I have always been able to swipe back. The problem is when I do swipe back the webpage then becomes unresponsive on some webpages. Re-loading the page again fixes the issue.

Swipes in Safari stop working