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Since a couple of weeks my Firefox installation (Nightly, now on FF 100.0.2) on Linux (Guix, X11, Gnome 40.4) goes back or forward in history when I swipe horizontally on the touchpad (with two fingers). For me, this happens very often by accident, and never intentionally; how can this swipe-back behavior be disabled?

I've tried to set:

in about:config, but none of those options disable the swipe-back feature.

The result of setting mousewheel.with_alt.action to 3 is that horizontal swiping on the touchpad now leads to both zooming of the contents and also going back and forward in history. So maybe two different settings are conflicting with each other.

Other things that don't work:

  • Setting the environment variable MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=0.
  • Switching from Gnome to XFCE.
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  • Maybe try to set environment variable: MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=0, opposite of what's suggested here to enable it. Aug 8, 2022 at 19:14
  • Just tried MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=0, but doesn't help either...
    – BlackShift
    Aug 8, 2022 at 19:36
  • Maybe my firefox version is too old, browsing through searchfox.org shows that several of the relevant source code files have been updated pretty recently..
    – BlackShift
    Aug 8, 2022 at 20:48
  • FWIW, I still fail to turn of swiping left/right to go back and forward in history with Firefox 109. However, it doesn't happen by accident anymore, for unknown reasons, so my immediate problem is solved.
    – BlackShift
    Jan 29, 2023 at 14:58
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    I found another answer that solved it for me superuser.com/a/642368/238869
    – janka102
    May 13, 2023 at 23:18

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