Two finger swipe in Chrome breaks

Happens to me too, OSX 10.9, Chromium 29.

This is so annoying if I could only disable the swipe back/forword at least I will not be forced to quit and re-open the browser every minute...

This behaviour started appearing for me today. Disabling the "Swipe between pages" gesture from the Trackpad settings in the System Preferences panel solved this for me. But now the whole navigation between pages functionality is broken, which is not what I want. What's going on here Apple?

This is reproducable in Chrome, Safari & Firefox. Any other application that supports page navigation will probably break as well.

I am using a 13-inch MacBook Air mid 2013 with an Apple Wireless Trackpad, but the same happens when I try it on the built-in trackpad.

Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Preferences/

com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist. There may be a second one for the Macbook. Move the .plist to your desktop.

Log out/in and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.

If the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer ones.

Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

You might need to redo the View settings after an update.

That worked like a miracle! Awesome!

Not sure if the logout & -in did the trick, or removing the drivers did. But it's solved now. Happy user again.

This worked for me when i updated to the Yosemite Beta too. Chrome was the only one that would not work, but this method fixed it!

Thanks Eric and Leonie

Thank you thank you for this !!!

I don't understand why it broke- or why your solution works....but it's gerat. I've got 2 finger swipe back in my google chrome on osx yosemite

Thanks Eric. Problem just cropped up for me in the past few days and a quick search revealed your recommendation. I've deleted plists before, but so few times I don't remember exactly where to look for them.

Glad folks like you are on here.

Well, this worked for a few minutes, but is back to where it was. Nice try, though.

This worked even without the logout / login step. As soon as I moved that file out of the Preferences folder, the swipe started working. So far, so good - so thats that.

Thanks a lot for the help.

You are welcome.