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I just recently started using Mac OS X Lion.
Everything is working very well but I do miss the swipe of three fingers which made me go back and forward when I was browsing.
There is a new feature in Lion that uses the three finger swipe to jump between applications. I have tried to turn that of, but still no result.
Any Ideas of how to get the old three finger swipe back?
This annoyed me too, and it doesn't seem the solution is entirely satisfying — we'll just have to hope that Twitter for Mac gets updated soon to be better compatible with Lion.
If you have "Swipe between pages" set to "Swipe left or right with three fingers" or "Swipe with two or three fingers", then left/right three-finger swipe gestures will work in Twitter.
If you have Mission Control & App Exposé set to "Swipe up/down with three fingers", then you can hold ⌥ Option to use up/down three-finger swipe gestures with Twitter. (I'm not sure why, but if you have these set to 4-finger swipes, it doesn't seem 3-finger swipes work at all in Twitter.)
This may be one of those things that is labeled as a "feature not a bug." It's possible that the swiping gestures that are the same as the gestures on Snow Leopard are considered "Legacy" gestures. If that's the case then it is possible that having it "backwards" Is the expected behavior. If it's a legacy gesture then it may be considered to ignore natural scrolling because that is a "new" feature. I'm not saying that's how it should work, if you ask me if you change the direction of scrolling, it should apply to all gestures, not just the scrolling ones. I've moved mine back to the two finger option for the moment. You should file it at http://www.apple.com/feedback to make sure that Apple knows how confusing this is.
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I looked into it and here is what I found. In Lion the swipe to navigate is grouped in System Preference > Trackpad > More Gestures under the "Swipe between pages" option. Under that option, you get A) Scroll left or right with two fingers B) Swipe left or right with three fingers C) Swipe with two or three fingers
Option A is the new navigation method featured in the new Safari during the WWDC keynote. It is the new feature in Lion. You SCROLL left to go FORWARD, right to go BACKWARD. You get the cool page flipping effect with this but developers need to update their code to support this feature.
Option B is the original swipe to navigate method used in Snow Leopard after the introduction of the Magic Touch Pad. You SWIPE left to go BACKWARD, right to go FORWARD. Many cool apps support this feature only at this stage.
Option C is the best of both world. Try to use it and play around in the new Safari... it is a bit confusing to navigate with both 2 fingers and 3 fingers swipes in the opposite directions :p