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motrek

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Sep 14, 2012
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I recently bought a Magic Trackpad and have been pretty happy with it except that it was frequently misinterpreting my scroll gestures in my web browser.

I would scroll down and it would interpret that as "scrolling" left, to the previous page.

I have no idea why it was doing this because I even looked at my fingers when making the gesture a few times and if anything, they were moving down and slightly to the right, not left.

Anyway, I think I've solved the problem by going to the Trackpad panel of System Preferences, "More Gestures" tab, and switching the gesture for "Swipe between pages" from a scroll gesture to a swipe gesture.

I haven't had the problem since then. Hopefully this might help some of you.
 
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