Restore 3 finger swipe between pages in Google Chrome on Mac OSX Lion

Posted July 25th, 2011 in OSX

The default gesture in Mac OSX Lion to swipe between pages is to use 2 fingers which, unfortunately at the time of writing this post, this doesn't do anything in a number of apps including Google Chrome, Path Finder, and even Apple's Finder. Chrome and Path Finder previously used 3 fingers and fortunately Lion makes it easy to configure the gestures so they can again.

The solution

Open System Preferences and then Trackpad (or type trackpad into Spotlight).

Click into the "More Gestures" option as shown in the screenshot below.

Click the first option labelled "Swipe between pages" and then either set it to "Swipe left or right with three fingers" or "Swipe with two or three fingers".

Done!