Three finger lookup no longer opens dictionary

Following my upgrade to Yosemite I no longer can access the dictionary using the 3 finger lookup. Also, when I attempt this, the keyboard then locks up. The trackpad continues to work. To get the keyboard back, I need to shutdown and then restart. I am on a 13 inch Macbook Pro mid 2012.

so here's what i did to get three finger swipe to work as web navigation.
initially i had "Swipe between pages" set for three fingers and "Swipe between full-screen apps" set to four fingers.
i then switched "Swipe between full-screen apps" to three fingers which automatically unchecks the "Swipe between pages" box.
then i checked the "Swipe between pages" box again which set the web navigation to two fingers. i then confirmed that the two finger swipe did actually work as it, along with three finger, was NOT working before.
then i changed the "Swipe between pages" to three fingers which automatically changes the "Swipe between full-screen apps" to four fingers
now everything works as it did before!!!
EDIT: must note though since a lot of the comments on here are about navigating finder, i've never really used three finger gesters to navigate within finder since i almost always use column view with the arrow keys. i did test it though and it still appears that three finger gestures do not work in finder. all in all, there are a lot of areas which could use two, three, or four finger gesters to navigate from page to page in mavericks and even in previous OS X versions, most notably the Mac App Store and the iTunes stores. the solution above does however fix swiping forward and backward within Safari and Chrome.

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