Trackpad Issue - Three-Finger Scrolling?

I can't exactly explain how it happen, but I'll try to explain what I did: I was messing around with my trackpad settings, specifically the three-finger dragging feature, while multi-tasking between some other programs. My computer started to hang up for a minute, probably because my multi-tasking was eating up my memory or CPU. In any case, after it came down, I closed out of a few programs and focused on browsing the Internet.
Normally, when I browse, I can swipe left or right with three fingers to navigate Back and Forward in my tabs' histories, but when I tried it this time, I found that all I could do was scroll left and right. I thought that checking and unchecking the "three-finger drag" box in my System Preferences would fix it, but it didn't work. The three-finger scrolling is now all that can be done; it overrides any previous three-finger gestures in all my applications. I've tried resetting the PRAM and SMC, but that doesn't work, nor does removing the appropriate .PLIST file in /Library/Preferences.
Is there any other way that this might be fixed? Am I missing something that I did not know existed before? I miss being able to go back a page.

Oh, well, I'm an idiot. Turns out I accidentally unchecked the Swipe Between Pages option.
My bad.

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