Although we could use gestures to navigate in earlier versions of Safari Mac OS X Lion shipped with Safari 5.1. The new version of Safari added a new two-fingered gesture for navigating through browser history.
The new two-fingered gestures are used to swipe back and forth in your browser history while you focus the mouse pointer on the Safari window.
If you want to go back and see prior browsing history just use to fingers and swipe from the right to the left. If you swipe from the left to the right you go forward in your browser history.
The new gestures include a new animation that makes the new page slide over the one you are currently viewing.
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15 responses to “Gesture Your Way Through Safari Browsing History In Lion [OS X Tips]”
Actually, if you want to see prior browsing history, you would swipe from the left to the right, and vice versa.
I just paíd $20.82 for an íPad 2.64GB and my boyfriend loves his Panasoníc Lumíx GF 1 Cámera that we got for $38.79 there arriving tomorrow by UP S.I will never pay such expensive retail príces in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LCD T V to my boss for $657 which only cost me $62.81 to buy.
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Why we continue to speak of lion as if it is a master. We all forget what kind of problems is everybody getting since his release.
This is just an example. https://discussions.apple.com/…
We all should boycott Apple since is not anymore the company used to be.
Even the biggest, longest threads on Apple support, and about the most disastrous problems, never amount to much more than a tiny percentage of users overall. If an issue affects you, that’s really too bad, but to assume that everyone is having the same experience as a result is usually incorrect.
I just paíd $20.82 for an íPad 2.64GB and my boyfriend loves his Panasoníc Lumíx GF 1 Cámera that we got for $38.79 there arriving tomorrow by UP S.I will never pay such expensive retail príces in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LCD T V to my boss for $657 which only cost me $62.81 to buy.
Here is the website we use to get it all from, http://to.ly/aZYl
Gestures are nice,but they can be confusing. I swipe when I should have pinched and scroll when I should have tapped. Then zig when I should have zagged.
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Except to get the eye candy slidey windows you HAVE to use the two finger gesture. When you do that though, the forward backward gestures implemented everywhere else in the OS (except Preview) disappear.
If you want forward and back everywhere as it used in 10.6 then you need to set the trackpad to use three fingers. But then you lose the slidy screen thing in Safari.
Bonkers implementation. Who gives a hoot about slide vs swipe? The paradigm is forward and back and it shouldn’t have a dependency on the number of digits used.
I have a 2010 i7 MacBook Pro and a 2009 i7 iMac and both don’t have the issues on that forum. Hell, my 2010 MacBook Air doesn’t have any of those problems. Quality control is harder to manage as you grow. This is logical. The majority of users were not affected with the issue so they chose not to delay the launch of the OS. From the ethical side, they should have warned that upgrading the OS may render some systems to be near useless. I’m sure they’ve lost the support of some consumers from Lion, and it’s deserved.