How to disable swipe navigation on Edge for Mac

Question

Like Chrome, Edge for Mac supports browser navigation by dragging horizontally with two fingers on the trackpad. I know how to turn this off in Chrome, but is it possible to turn this off in Edge? Bonus gratitude for a command-line solution.

I've tried, without success...

to access edge://flags/#overscroll-history-navigation, which appears to have been removed
to deduce an equivalent of defaults write com.google.Chrome AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool FALSE
to find an equivalent of Windows 10's HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\EdgeUI\Allow Edge Swipe

Please list the things/suggestions you've tried, otherwise people will just propose the same things again. — nohillside, Jun 24 '20 at 07:03

score 17 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 25 '20 at 17:48

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I found a solution in the trackpad settings. In System Preferences go to Trackpad > More Gestures. Then disable "Swipe between pages".

answered Sep 25 '20 at 17:48

Rebecca Vetter

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this worked me. this is the worst feature I ever encountered in whole my life as a computer user. thanks a lot – Adem Nov 11 '21 at 09:39

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 24 '21 at 02:31

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This appears to get the job done for me on Big Sur (11.2.3) with Microsoft Edge (89.0.774.57):

defaults write com.microsoft.edgemac AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool FALSE

answered Mar 24 '21 at 02:31

Adam Michel

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After a restart of Edge, this works! Thank you. – Danyal Aytekin Mar 26 '21 at 01:39
Is there some benefit to disabling it specifically for Edge, rather than in System Preferences? – iconoclast Sep 29 '21 at 04:16
@iconoclast My memory might be failing me but I don't think Edge respected the "Swipe between pages" setting in System Prefs back then. If it respects it now then that's progress :) – Danyal Aytekin Mar 18 '22 at 04:41

How to disable swipe navigation on Edge for Mac

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