How to disable gesture navigation in Chrome and OS X

One of the advantages of using Chrome on your Mac is that it's one of the few tools or applications that supports gesture navigation, allowing you to move forward and backward in the web browser without using your mouse. However, not all users are keen on using this feature, much less having it enabled. It's simply one of the customization options you can change in Chrome, and we'll tell you how to do it here.

To begin, we'll need to open a terminal from the OS X menu and select " Utilities ". We won't need to access Chrome's settings.

We then entered the following command:

defaults write com.google.Chrome.plist AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool FALSE

As we can see, it indicates that the use of gestures in Chrome is " turned off " by changing the value from " True ", which is the default, to " false ". For this to take effect immediately, we must restart Chrome.

To see the results, we can try using gesture navigation in Chrome . We'll see that nothing happens.

Now, if you want to re-enable the option, enter the same command but change FALSE to TRUE at the end of the line:

defaults write com.google.Chrome.plist AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool TRUE

This is how to disable this OS X option in Chrome , but keep in mind that it will also affect other applications that use it and that you might find useful.

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