The (I believe) two finger swipe that allows you to go "back" and "forward" through your browsing history that was demonstrated at the WWDC on Safari is a great addition. I was wondering whether it works in browsers other than Safari? I'm going to buy a MBP as soon after Lion comes out and will not be using Safari at all, so it would be a shame if I couldn't take advantage of this cool feature.
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Does the two finger swipe work in browsers other than Safari?
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I doesn't on my MacBook Pro 5,1. I have the latest dev build of Chrome.yes it works perfectly with Chrome.
It does work on my Magic Trackpad with Chrome 12.0.742.100.
The application has to support the swipe gesture, but in theory any application can.
I think we're talking about two different things.
First, there is the gesture of swiping with two fingers and causing forward/backward events to be sent. This works the exact same way as in Snow Leopard (and as you can see in the screen shot above, you can set it to three fingers like in SL, too.)
Second, there is the animation in Safari that happens when going forward or backward using the swipe motion. This is app-specific. My Safari luckily doesn't do it (I hate it. It's a useless animation that just slows down the experience.)
First, there is the gesture of swiping with two fingers and causing forward/backward events to be sent. This works the exact same way as in Snow Leopard (and as you can see in the screen shot above, you can set it to three fingers like in SL, too.)
Second, there is the animation in Safari that happens when going forward or backward using the swipe motion. This is app-specific. My Safari luckily doesn't do it (I hate it. It's a useless animation that just slows down the experience.)
Two finger swipe between pages does not work on my mid-2010 MBP. Three fingers does work though. I have a friend with an older model MPB report the same thing.
Check out the brief post and photos I put up on Google Plus to resolve this and any other apps that don't have gestures:
https://plus.google.com/104467383659497296572/posts/AtoxEnJm4Ku
I added a three finger swipe left and right to go back to previous message and forward to next message.
https://plus.google.com/104467383659497296572/posts/AtoxEnJm4Ku
I added a three finger swipe left and right to go back to previous message and forward to next message.