How do you disable swipe history navigation in Chrome?

Question

On my Surface Pro, when I drag my finger across the browser window, Chrome will navigate back and forth through the browsing history.

How do I disable this feature?

@vembutech Both. The former navigates back, the latter forward. — Oliver Salzburg, Nov 14 '14 at 19:58
This is not Windows or Surface specific. The same solution works on other operating systems/devices, including Chrome OS/Chromebooks. — Laurence Gonsalves, Jun 22 '16 at 04:15
Is this not a function of the OS ? It's a 'shortcut' which is provided to the application, by the OS. — djsmiley2kStaysInside, Aug 07 '17 at 15:38
I found this question even though I’m using Vivaldi on Mac OS. @djsmiley2k’s comment helped me. The setting is called “Swipe between pages” in the system preferences under “Trackpad” and “More Gestures.” — Dawn Drescher, Apr 09 '19 at 13:40
Chrome 80 removed the hidden setting to disable this feature. There is an issue where people are complaining about it: https://crbug.com/1060053 — Denilson Sá Maia, Apr 27 '20 at 07:25

score 30 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 19 '14 at 10:28

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answered Nov 19 '14 at 10:28

Oliver Salzburg

This worked for me on Chrome OS. – Laurence Gonsalves Jun 22 '16 at 04:16
There are some people that are still having issues with disabling this: https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/5616407?hl=en – Wimateeka Nov 13 '19 at 18:48
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This flag is no longer available in version 89.0.4389.82 – Rajat Mar 15 '21 at 05:51

score 11 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 02 '15 at 10:47

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You can also pass

--overscroll-history-navigation=0

as startup parameter to chrome

answered Mar 02 '15 at 10:47

cholewa1992

I've been looking for this for a while, thanks! No one mentioned the start up flag param at all and I was looking all over for it. – Wimateeka Nov 13 '19 at 15:30

score 4 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 02 '18 at 19:49

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It works for MacOS to disabling of swiping.

Just run Terminal of MacOS and paste and run this command

defaults write com.google.Chrome AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool false

After that close chrome and run it again.

edited Aug 02 '18 at 19:49

Pierre.Vriens

answered Aug 02 '18 at 18:49

Bless you sir, I've been having screaming fits when Chrome would go back while I was scrolling around but I didn't want to change "swipe between pages" for everything. – PaulC Apr 08 '21 at 18:18

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 16 '21 at 17:52

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Updated: Q1 2021

This can be disabled on Windows by passing the following flag on the command line:

--disable-features="TouchpadOverscrollHistoryNavigation"

answered Mar 16 '21 at 17:52

jdgregson

I no longer have this issue or have a device where I could reproduce this. A quick online research indicates that this is the the current correct solution though. – Oliver Salzburg Mar 18 '21 at 09:32