TrackPad/TouchPad Gestures for History Navigation

ImmortalEngine

@chriscochrun said in TrackPad/TouchPad Gestures for History Navigation:

Two finger TouchPad gesture for history back navigation and history forward navigation. Basically what the mouse gestures do but allow for two finger support to activate it instead of the alt key or right clicking.

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@chriscochrun said in TrackPad/TouchPad Gestures for History Navigation:

Two finger TouchPad gesture for history back navigation and history forward navigation. Basically what the mouse gestures do but allow for two finger support to activate it instead of the alt key or right clicking.

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need this badly

anz3e

I just noticed, the back gestures exist and are functional within the pwas or windowed shortcuts created with vivaldi. but not within the main browser window.

(right click an open tab, create shortcut (or install) then test the gestures there)

maetthew

How is this still not a feature in 2025? 7,5 years old thread..

nomadic

To the recent posters in this thread, have you given this workaround a try? It relies on 3 finger swipes instead of 2, but it is an easy adjustment to make once you get used to it.

@nomadic said in TrackPad/TouchPad Gestures for History Navigation:

@jbcrib If you have a Windows Precision Touchpad, then you can fairly easily work around this. (In my case, my touchpad originally used ELAN drivers, but I replaced them with the Windows driver.)

In Touchpad settings under the Devices section of Windows settings, You can find an option called Advanced gesture configuration in the column to the right.

You can then set either a 3 finger or 4 finger swipe to do forward/backward navigation. I set it to up and down swipes to preserve the original program switching of left/right.

Image showing my settings

While it isn't the 2 finger swipe to the side that you are used to, it is fairly easy to adjust to. As an added benefit, you can navigate forward/back while pinch zoomed in.

greybeard

@nomadic
Probably a good suggestion but not for those of us who have trouble with fingers, hands and arms.
Anybody with arthritis or rheumatism.
I could possibly use 4 finger gestures but not three.
I will have to try it tomorrow.
Thanks for the tip.

readefries

This really annoys me, that such basic interaction doesn't work

Layasmin

Not sure if anyone has suggested this yet, but I've been using a chrome extension called "swipe back" for a couple years now as a workaround. Works with two fingers btw

You can find it here!
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/swipe-back/mkkcgajcpakpfjgikmekgnihlbhliodo?pli=1

UltimateSJ

@Layasmin Lifesaver. Thanks very much!

ivan.a.petkov

I'm a recent Mac user and I enabled the gesture navigation in browser history. It's really great! But that's a MacOS feature. I guess most of the Vivaldi developers use Macbooks and therefore don't care about the others.

Marix

For Linux User try this one https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/swipe-back/clmmakdjojjcfjainblcjcglejkagkma. On Linux Chrome have swipe gestures with Wyland but Chrome/Vivaldi is still buggy with Wayland not like Firefox