Back/forward trackpad gestures in other places (Finder, Firefox, ...) in os x lion

the two finger slide effect for browseing history (of a tab) in safari seems such a cool new feature
however , I couldn't figure out which trackpad gesture shall I use to navigate in other applications
such as finder to browse one folder up....
does anybody know any solution?

To get it to work in Finder, you have to set 'Swipe between pages' to 'Swipe with 2 or 3 fingers' in Trackpad preferences.

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Where have these gone? I used to love swiping back and forth on the trackpad so I could go forward and back in the pages. This feature is still in Safari, but where has it gone in Chrome? Is this a Chrome developer issue by where they will likely update chrome to support more Lion features?
Thanks.

I ran into that problem too. I had to make some changes in System Preferences -> Trackpad -> More Gestures. I changed "Swipe between pages" to use three fingers. That automatically changed "Swipe between full screen apps" to four fingers instead of three.

Where are the back/forward arrows to navigate web site?

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as I progress through a web site and I want to go back a page and then forward to the page I just left, how do I do this? I do not see back/forward arrows as in other browsers.
Thank you,
Alan J. Zell
[email protected]

If the menu bar is hidden then press the F10 key or hold down the Alt key, that should make the menu bar appear.
Make sure that toolbars like the "Navigation Toolbar" and the "Bookmarks Toolbar" are visible: "View > Toolbars"
* If items are missing then open the Customize window via "View > Toolbars > Customize" or via "Firefox > Options > Toolbar Layout"
* If a missing item is in the toolbar palette then drag it back from the Customize window on the toolbar
* If you do not see an item on a toolbar and in the toolbar palette then click the "Restore Default Set" button to restore the default toolbar set up.
See also:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Toolbar_customization
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Back+and+forward+or+other+toolbar+items+are+missing

I just updated to 25.0 and I noticed the History drop down menu has been simplified and Back, Forward and Home are now gone. Can these be restored?

I am running on a Mac (Lion) with FF 25.0. I typically hide the toolbar because I like to max out my screen space without having to go into full screen mode. So I typically use a custom keyboard command to navigate forward and back during my browser session, but occasionally the keyboard command fails and the page is unresponsive. In the past all I had to do was go up to the History drop down menu and choose "Back" or "Forward". I would also use the "Home" selection to get back to my homepage. But ever since I updated to 25.0 those selection are now gone from the History menu.
Is there any way to restore them? And are they gone for all users (was this a global change) or are one of my add-ons simply not playing nice and causing this problem? TIA!

On WinXP Back, Forward, and Home was last in the Firefox 3.6 versions and disappeared as of Firefox 4.0 - and hasn't been seen since.
Doesn't the Mac OSX versions of Firefox have Back and Forward in the context menu (right-click), as Windows and Linux versions do?

Issues with Finder tabs feature + trackpad gestures

Hello,
Recently installed Yosemite 10.10.1 (clean install + migration of backup data and apps). Like Yosemite design but...
Just after the install, things I am talking about below, were working well but since the very first turn-off and start, things have been going worse and worse, especially with Finder.
1st issue. Opening tabs in Finder (cmd + click on folder from the sidebar) works in a bizarre way: when I open a folder such as Documents in a tab > OK but.... when I open the folder Utilities (part of the Applications one) from the Finder sidebar, the former open tabs as well as the left sidebar of the Finder vanish and just get a unique Finder window (without the left sidebar) with the Utilities folder. This unexpected and undesired behavior happens in both full screen or regular modes.
2nd issue. When scoping into a folder which consists of multiple sub-folders, the "back-and-forth" navigation to the previous or next folder (similar to previous or next page) does not work with the usual Trackpad gestures (swipe with 2 or 3 fingers) while it was working super well just after the install.
Hope these undesired behaviors of Finder have been already identified as bugs and will be fixed very soon. Should any of you have an idea about that, welcome.
Thank you!

Self reply. Just found workaround and solution:
1st issue: step 1 > activated "Quit Finder" in Finder menu bar (thanks to Onyx), step 2 > quit Finder, step 3 > restart Finder and... step 4 > all folders open properly in tabs.
However, also noticed that the width of the Finder sidebar seems to be preserved as a preference, only as from a certain width. Below this limit, seems that the manual settings of the sidebar width are lost and next time the folder is open it comes with a shrunk sidebar (Yosemite bug or normal behavior? Cannot recall such a behavior in Mavericks).
2nd issue: back-and-forth navigation in Finder pages (within a same window or tab) works well with trackpad swipe gesture at the condition the Trackpad System Preference "swiping through pages" is set up with option "3 fingers" or "2 or 3 fingers". Option "2 fingers only" does not work in Finder.
My 2 cents!

What happened to my back button? Now when I'm browsing on facebook, or any other site, the back/forward buttons are not highlighted to be able to use them?

When I am surfing the net, I have always been able to use my back/forward buttons. Now all of a sudden, they are not available to use, you can still see them, but they are grey, not black, like they once were so that I could click them to go back to a previous page, or forward once I've went back? I don't know what's the problem. I did the most recent firefox update that was sent to me recently. But just noticed this problem today. Thanks for your help.

A possible cause is a problem with the file places.sqlite that stores the bookmarks and the history.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

Hi. On the buttons labeled Back, Forward, Reload, Stop, and Home on the top of Firefox page used to be all right beside each other on the left, followed by the Address Bar and then the Search Bar.

However, I wanted to try Firefox Beta 4 but didn't like it, especially since I'd lose all my add-ons! So i have Firefox 3.6.13, but now my bar at the top is Back, Forward, then Address Bar, the Reload, Stop, Search Bar, and then Home. How do I get it the way it was before?! Please help!
I also had a buttong for AiOS (All-in-One-Side Bar) which I really like and now it gone! I cant find it in the preferences either! Please help. I would insert images to help but I guess I cant do that here.

Thank you SO much! That completely solved all the issues! You've made my day! Thanks!

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Safari trackpad gestures font resize were suddenly disabled in 10.8.2 and I wonder if it was after a recent update?
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I had a similar problem with my mac. I connect via Airport and one day after I updated some 3rd party software I had the same experience with Software update. I also couldn't connect using Safari however Firefox worked fine and as expected the Network was hooked up and running fine. I didn't try adding an Administrator account which sounds like a good idea since I just did a backup of my system the night before. I cloned my mac from my external drive and everything worked fine. I believe that a system file was corrupt which was causing my problems. So if the new Administrator account doesn't work it's a system wide problem and you options would be to archive and install or using a backup if one is available. Good luck.

Why doesn't the rotate gesture on my trackpad behave as it used to for switching between tabs when it works the same with all other programs besides Firefox?

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I changed the about:config to make the rotate gesture move between tabs, and it worked great for well over a year. Now it behaves erratically as described here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=877598
It used to be very controllable to move one tab over, now it is erratic and moves quickly and to unexpected tabs regardless of how slow I do the rotate gesture. This is the main reason I use Firefox over Chrome and I would like to continue to do so unless there is no fix to this.

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How do I reset trackpad gestures to defaults?

Morning,
I have a new rMBP and I've restored my user account, files etc from a Time Machine backup of a 2007 MBP, also running Mavericks. I've found that forward/backward (two-finger) swipes don't work very well in programs like Safari, iPhoto etc. I'll start swiping and the page will get halfway across the screen and then snap back, and it's next to impossible to get it to properly go to the next/previous page.
For testing, I created a new user account and everything is working fine on that, so my guess is that I've imported some settings from my old laptop (which didn't support multitouch gestures) which are causing problems. But, is there a way I can reset all of the gesture preferences to defaults? (Is it even a gesture preference, or is it some other OS configuration element)?
I've tried copying over the com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad.plist and com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouchTrackpad.plist from ~Library/Preferences on the new user account to my old one, with no effect. I've even tried deleting the whole contents of ~Library/Preferences and logging out/back in - nothing. All my swipe/click settings are preserved so they must be stored somewhere else.
If I delete the com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad.plist file and then change my swipe settings via System Preferences, the file isn't even recreated, so I'm struggling to tell where it's inherited from and where the click and gesture settings are kept.
I'd be grateful for any suggestions how I can reset the trackpad behaviour to default, so back/forward swiping will work properly again...!
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So yesterday I updated my MBA to Yosemite. And since then I'm facing severe problems with my trackpad. Scroll and click gesture works as usual, but the other gestures suddenly stops working. I even checked my trackpad settings, but couldn't find any setting issues there. They won't just respond to any. Is it just me or everyone is facing such issues.

worse than that, my MacBook Pro FREEZES when using 4 finger swipe on the built-in trackpad for App Expose after upgrade to 10.10.1
Before 10.10.1 everything was working fine. Now, about one third of the time I use the 4 finger swipe the computer is dead (apparently mostly when using Numbers). I can still use the mouse but no response to clicks, keyboard, trackpad, or screaming out loud. All I can do is turn it off!
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It always starts when I tap with two fingers to zoom in to read articles. It wouldn't zoom, and everything stops working. Scrolling doesn't work. Going back to previous page doesn't work. Clicking on back button on the top left corner doesn't work either... It's stuck on the current webpage. Entering a new address will not take me anywhere either. It just stays on the same page. If I restart Safari, everything seems to work fine until I use gestures like zoom and going back to previous page (scrolling works). Gestures work on other applications though. It only happens on Safari. If I restart the computer, Safari works fine. But eventually the problem comes back somehow.
I talked to someone at Apple store, and he recommended replacing my trackpad, which will cost around $140... Do I really have to replace the trackpad? I also have Snow Leopard on a different partition, and all the gestures work flawlessly. Furthermore, like I mentioned above, I'm only having issues with the gestures on Safari. Is there any other solution to this other than replacing the trackpad?
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I talked to someone at Apple store, and he recommended replacing my trackpad, which will cost around $140... Do I really have to replace the trackpad?
If a repair tech who actually examined your trackpad said you do, why don't you believe him/her? No one here can answer as we do not physically have access to your MBP to examine or perform diagnostic testing. The only thing I can recommend is that you check out KB Article: CLICKY CLICK---> http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1248 Intel-based Apple Portables: Troubleshooting unresponsive trackpad issues
like I mentioned above, I'm only having issues with the gestures on Safari.
Are you saying that the trackpad works in other browsers as well as in the Finder & offline?

Simultaneous trackpad gestures gone in Lion

I used to be able to perform trackpad gestures at the same time as clicking down on the trackpad. This has gone in Lion; now when you click, no gestures can be performed at the same time. Can this be turned back on?
Examples of where I used to use it (and I did it a LOT):
• Click down on a file, then with my other hand I'd do a 4 finger swipe up to show the desktop. This is an easy way to drag files to folder on the desktop/pen drives etc.. without having to do it in finder.
• Same as above, but with a 4 finger swipe down to being up Expose. When dragging files in/out/to/from different applications, it's nice to be able to do this all from the trackpad.
I know for the second one I can just press F3 to bring up mission control, and there's probably an easy solution for the desktop as well, but it just seems weird that since upgrading to the new OS, I actually lose functionality from the trackpad.

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Back/forward trackpad gestures in other places (Finder, Firefox, ...) in os x lion

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