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Disable Firefox going back and forth in history when overscrolling horizontally (lemmy.world)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/332512

Whenever I accidentally scroll too far left or right in Firefox, it goes back or forth in my history, which is very annoying. How could I disable this?

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[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

According to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1111123 :

In the about:config page there's an option named middlemouse.contentLoadURL. If you set that to false, it seems to stop the middle mouse click from going back to the previous visited website.

[–] milouse@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

You mean on firefox mobile?

I don’t know about the history, but on firefox mobile there is a setting to let you switch from one tab to another when sliding left or right. Maybe you are speaking of that? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-gestures-in-firefox-android#w_switch-tabs-by-swiping-the-address-bar