Haptic feedback on Macbook trackpad

mlip — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:43:57 GMT

It seems that starting from version 158.0, haptic feedback was added on MacBooks when performing a two-finger swipe left or right to navigate back or forward between pages. It feels terrible—so much so that I initially thought my trackpad was malfunctioning. I only found out it was introduced in the latest update thanks to a Reddit thread. Please allow users to disable this feature, as it is extremely unpleasant.

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ca098 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:30:46 GMT

I am having the same issue. I love firefox but it is that bad that I am going to have to start using a different browser unless this is fixed

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nbrg — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:53:22 GMT

I thought I was going insane, good to know it was an actual change. I'd also love to be able to disable this somehow.

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leoltl — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 05:28:58 GMT

agreed! we should be able to turn this off

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dasty98 — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 23:51:10 GMT

I hate it!

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dasty98 — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 23:47:40 GMT

I worked around this annoyance with BetterTouchTool:

Open about:config, find widget.disable-swipe-tracker and set it to true. This turns off Firefox's native swipe-to-navigate gesture, and the haptic click goes away with it.
In BetterTouchTool, add two trackpad gestures that apply only to Firefox:
- 2 Finger Swipe Left → Send ⌘ → to active app (Cmd + Right Arrow = Forward)
- 2 Finger Swipe Right → Send ⌘ ← to active app (Cmd + Left Arrow = Back)

BetterTouchTool trackpad gestures for Firefox

Now swiping navigates back and forward again, with no haptic click.

Or just import the two gestures: copy the JSON below, select Firefox in the left sidebar of BetterTouchTool (add it with "+" if it's not there), open the Trackpad section and press ⌘V. Don't paste them into the global section, or they will also fire in other apps (in text editors ⌘←/⌘→ jumps to the start/end of the line).

[ { "BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1793576649.913594, "BTTTriggerType" : 159, "BTTTriggerTypeDescriptionReadOnly" : "2 Finger Swipe Left", "BTTTriggerTypeDescription" : "Forward: Command + →", "BTTTriggerClass" : "BTTTriggerTypeTouchpadAll", "BTTUUID" : "B2124100-519C-4CD3-87AF-FB04FEEB359C", "BTTOrder" : 0, "BTTActionsToExecute" : [ { "BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1793575894.068845, "BTTTriggerParentUUID" : "B2124100-519C-4CD3-87AF-FB04FEEB359C", "BTTIsPureAction" : true, "BTTUUID" : "46E7DA4B-9426-4527-9317-77DC2D734482", "BTTPredefinedActionType" : 128, "BTTPredefinedActionName" : "Send Shortcut to Specific App", "BTTLayoutIndependentActionChar" : "active app", "BTTShortcutApp" : "active app", "BTTShortcutAppUnderCursor" : "active app", "BTTShortcutToSend" : "55,124", "BTTOrder" : 0 } ], "BTTGestureNotes" : "Forward: Command + →" }, { "BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1793576578.4873559, "BTTTriggerType" : 160, "BTTTriggerTypeDescriptionReadOnly" : "2 Finger Swipe Right", "BTTTriggerTypeDescription" : "Back: Command + ←", "BTTTriggerClass" : "BTTTriggerTypeTouchpadAll", "BTTUUID" : "E3350E9F-3818-409D-9FF6-E1993C87A74F", "BTTOrder" : 1, "BTTActionsToExecute" : [ { "BTTLastUpdatedAt" : 1793575868.2032051, "BTTTriggerParentUUID" : "E3350E9F-3818-409D-9FF6-E1993C87A74F", "BTTIsPureAction" : true, "BTTUUID" : "A03B2512-0BDD-42F6-8182-C538CB53B920", "BTTPredefinedActionType" : 128, "BTTPredefinedActionName" : "Send Shortcut to Specific App", "BTTLayoutIndependentActionChar" : "active app", "BTTShortcutApp" : "active app", "BTTShortcutAppUnderCursor" : "active app", "BTTShortcutToSend" : "55,123", "BTTOrder" : 0 } ], "BTTGestureNotes" : "Back: Command + ←" } ]

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