firefoxmactouchpad
When I scroll along the page or some scrollbox with two fingers on MacBook Pro touchpad, and it can be no longer scrolled to the left, Firefox decides I want to go back in history.
What can I do to disable history navigation using two-finger swipe in Firefox 17? I'm happy with using Backspace for going backwards, and wiping out all the text I was writing somewhere in some forms when I accidentally scroll more than I'm allowed is really frustrating.
Two-finger scrolling and other gestures are built in to the latest Synaptics drivers. Two-finger tap to right-click is not built in though. There is a Google Code project called TwoFingerScroll which can enable both the two-finger scrolling and two-finger tap to right click functionality. I tested it on my laptop with the latest synaptics drivers, and it worked well.
Interestingly, the scrolling enabled by this tool seems much smoother than the scrolling built into the regular synaptics driver.
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I like the following solution better (than the existing answer) because it only affects Firefox: