How do you disable swipe history navigation in Chrome?

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

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How do I disable this feature?

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4 Answers

Updated: Q1 2021

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

--disable-features="TouchpadOverscrollHistoryNavigation"

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1. Go to chrome://flags/#overscroll-history-navigation

2. Disable the Overscroll history navigation experiment:

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You can also pass

--overscroll-history-navigation=0 

as startup parameter to chrome

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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.

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