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Prevent horizontal scrolling from triggering forward / backward page navigation.
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Since Chrome 80, horizontal overscroll navigation has - for now - become impossible to disable (due to the removal of the overscroll-history-navigation flag; see https://issuetracker.google.com/u/1/issues/172341945)
This extension simply utilizes the `overscroll-behavior` CSS property to prevent overscroll navigation to help avoid frustration and accidental data loss.
Notice: You will need to refresh tabs after install to apply behavior. Specific websites may also opt back in to navigation behavior by force-overriding `overscroll-behavior` (not likely but possible). The plugin may also not run on certain built-in browser pages, like chrome://settings, where you will still see overscroll navigation occur. The aim of this plugin is to override the default behavior for most websites to help avoid frustration and data loss where possible without excessive permissions. This plugin uses a single tiny CSS file.
Latest reviews
- (2024-12-09) Jonathan MacKenzie: does what it says on the tin, absolutely necessary for using chrome with a trackpad without loss of data and/or sanity
- (2024-10-25) Matthew Ball: As of now (fall 2024), it appears that this Chrome Extension is no longer needed. You can now disable overscroll navigation on Chromebooks by going to the Accessibility settings of the Chromebook and deselecting "Use a swipe gesture to navigate between pages". Thank you for the stop-gap solution in the meantime!
- (2024-10-17) ikhwan: it works!
- (2024-09-04) Charlotte: Does exactly what I need
- (2024-08-01) Jean-Baptiste Solanet: OH MY GOD - Looks like it works, months of suffering might be coming to an end ! well done !
- (2024-04-10) Akshay k: JESUS CHRIST! THANK YOU! Chrome has removed the overallscroll-history from the flags section so this is the only safe option for me without tweking stuff on the command line. 5/5
- (2024-04-09) Hanita: Perfect! You need to refresh tabs for it to work after downloading but once that's done it's great. Such a good solution if your computer doesn't allow you to disable it yourself
- (2024-03-10) Lorraine Williams: This worked perfectly and right away once I followed the steps that are given. Thanks!!!
- (2024-03-02) Andrew T: Works perfectly, thanks!
- (2024-01-24) Brian Tannert: I'm using an M1 Mac and I've been trying to find a way to prevent horizontal scrolling from triggering forward/backward page navigation on Chrome by disabling overscroll-history-navigation, running "defaults write com.google.Chrome AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool false" on the Terminal and even turning off the "Swipe between pages" trackpad setting but to no avail. This extension however has worked wonders to say the least.
- (2024-01-15) Daniel Denette: Does exactly what it says (after a browser restart) which saves me from so much lost data from accidentally scrolling and going back. Thank you!
- (2024-01-08) Kanyesigye Akbr: Works as promised on most pages.