[ghporter]

I have a Core Duo MBP, and I think I had at one time the ability to use gestures with my browser. I can't find settings for that sort of thing (page back, page forward) anywhere. Am I misremembering, or is this stuff just somewhere I have forgotten how to find?

[imitchellg5]

As in three finger swipes to the left or right to go forward and back? That wasn't a feature of the Core Duo MBP, but there may be some hack to accomplish that.

[EndlessMac]

I don't think there are actually user changeable settings for browser gestures. It seems that you either turn them on or off in your Mac's universal OS System Preference settings.

The reason I say this is because there were a few times when gestures stopped working and I was trying to find other places to turn them on and off besides the System Preferences. I wasn't able to find it so if anyone else can then I would be interested also. The only way I was able to fix the problem was to restart my computer and my gestures started working again.

[ghporter]

I've rediscovered that on my MBP if I hold the alt/option key down, a two-finger sweep right to left will go back one page, and a two-finger sweep to left to right goes one page forward. Using my Magic Mouse on my iMac seems to have spoiled me to the gestures it does.

[EndlessMac]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

Using my Magic Mouse on my iMac seems to have spoiled me to the gestures it does.

I can say the same thing with my uni-body MBP trackpad. I use the 3 finger side to side swipe to go back and forward on webpages. I then also use the 3 finger swipe up and down to go to the top of the page or to the bottom of the page. I also really like the 360 degree scroll with 2 fingers. I've gotten so used to all this so fast that I do find it annoying going back to laptops that don't have this feature.

[tonton]

In addition to adding fully configurable gestures and tracking speed to the Magic Mouse, Better Touch Tool also gives you fully configurable gestures for your multi-touch trackpad. It's actually pretty awesome.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

I've rediscovered that on my MBP if I hold the alt/option key down, a two-finger sweep right to left will go back one page, and a two-finger sweep to left to right goes one page forward.

Weird. Doesn't work for me.

I get the same result with three finger swipes, as explained in Preferences - Trackpad.

-t

[EndlessMac]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

Weird. Doesn't work for me.

I've noticed that it works in Firefox but not in Safari. Safari also doesn't allow me to do the 3 finger go to top/bottom of page gesture, but it does the 3 finger side to side for back/forth.