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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

ker88

Level 1

5 points

Oct 27, 2013 1:57 PM in response to 北京刘向

The lockscreen solution looks more efficient than activating/desactivating in pref.

I use it now when the bug appears and i lost just the time to enter password and safari will be ok again..

Thank but waiting for the apple patch 😉

Oct 27, 2013 3:21 PM in response to bouddi

This solved my problem 🙂 Thnaks

Riley G.

Level 1

8 points

Oct 27, 2013 5:19 PM in response to Edoardo Allievi

Yes, this helped me too. Is it something to do with using Geek Tools?

Oct 27, 2013 8:07 PM in response to 北京刘向

Thanks to this suggestion, I remembered that my top right screen corner is set in Hot Corners to "Put Display to Sleep". So I simply put the cursor there for a second, then the screen goes black. I then move the cursor and...POW! Swiping works again. Whole "process" takes 2 seconds.

But Apple still needs to fix this. Bug report filed and closed as a duplicate of bug #14969656.

ker88

Level 1

5 points

Oct 28, 2013 7:08 AM in response to umparrothead

thank I was also thinking to that but I will also try it on next freez 😉 !!!

Oct 29, 2013 6:43 PM in response to 北京刘向

Locking screen works like a charm. Since apple changed the behavior of power button in 10.9, we can click the power button to lock the screen and then quickly unlock.

Now I wonder if the bug is why they changed the power button behavior in the beginning!

P.O

Level 1

0 points

Oct 30, 2013 1:10 AM in response to Kristopher Ross

Thank you !! I was having the same problem here! 🙂

pat park

Level 1

10 points

Oct 30, 2013 8:18 PM in response to Kristopher Ross

well after restting PRAM, the problem went away fro a few days. But now it has returned. Safari freezes no swipes and no scrolling on Magic Mouse or Trackpad (when hooked up to external monitor).

Also affects swiping in iPhoto photostream photos.

This really affects my workflow as it seems to be random when it pops up. I'm in the middle of work, selecting photos, researching on safari and then it locks up. I have to stop what I'm doing, log out and log back in to get my basic functionality back.

Again I want to emphasize, resetting PRAM is a temporary fix as are all of the others. This is a serious bug that Apple needs to resolve.

For the record, I have reset SMC, PRAM, fixed permissions etc etc. All temporary fixes, it comes back within a few days.

I have reported to Apple as suggested.

The HDMI audio lock up from the last update (ML) was bad enough. Every update there is some major bug which hurts the user experience. Apple needs to check their updates before releasing them. I just do not remember seeing as many screw ups before. I've been a long time Apple cheerleader, but my patience is growing thin.