Enable one finger swipe in Google Chrome on OS X Lion & Magic Mouse

Question

Is there a way to use the one finger swipe gesture with the Apple Magic Mouse in Google Chrome as the back button, just like in Apple Safari 5.1? I know one can set OS X back to use the two finger swipe,and in this case it the gesture works fine in Chrome (and any other browser), but I would like to use the one two finger swipe in Chrome. I'm using the Chrome canary build.

Solution 1

The latest Google Chrome Canary build (15.0.855.0) supports the one finger swipe gesture. This feature will probably be pushed down to the other Google Chrome builds other time.

Solution 2

The only thing I've found that fixes this issue is to disable the Use hardware acceleration when available setting in Chrome Version 59.0.3071.115 (Official Build) (64-bit) which is obviously NOT ideal.

EDIT: This has become broken again in Chrome since this question was posted and another answer mentioned it is fixed in Canary.

EDIT(2): This appears to be fixed once again in Version 60.0.3112.78 (Official Build) (64-bit) even after re-enabling the Use hardware acceleration when available option under advanced settings. I wonder if just toggling this setting off, relaunching the browser and then re-enabling the setting fixes this problem.

Comments

[HikeMike]

Voting to close as questions about Chrome Canary sound too localized in time to be of any lasting value.

[Sandeep Bansal]

try out Better Touch Tool blog.boastr.net

[wowpatrick]

@Daniel: I only mentioned Canary because I'm using it ATM, the answer may well be universal and work for all Chrome builds.

[Lukasa]

Ah, ok. To the best of my knowledge, the Magic Mouse has a much more limited set of gestures in Lion than does the trackpad. I am pretty sure that the gesture for Chrome is derived from the Swipe between pages setting, so if it doesn't exist for the Magic Mouse then it looks like you can't enable it, at least not now.

[Lukasa]

Odd. Can you try it in the Chrome Beta build? google.com/landing/chrome/beta

[wowpatrick]

Nope, no dice. Didn't work.

[Lukasa]

Wow, that's really weird. I'm upvoting the question based on that oddity.

[yetanothercoder]

disabling hw acceleration also fixed this issue for me for Catalina (10.15.7), thanks, but strange thing: it seems google chrome still fails with it for many years already (