Option to disable side swipe gesture to close a tab

[brixter]

In Firefox Android, I often have multiple tabs open. When I scroll up and down to navigate through the tabs, I sometimes accidentally close a tab. Probably because I was swiping diagonally up. I have a few seconds to click the undo button that pops up.

I've never intentionally used this gesture since I click the x button to close a tab.

Please add an option to disable the side swipe gesture.

[TW8punk]

v.137.0 has fixed the problem. So nice to be able to scroll through the tabs carelessly again. Thank you@Jon and your team. 

[Jon]

@Sin_Shadow_Fox (and others following along) - just chatted with the team, and in 137 they made gesturing less sensitive so you don't accidentally delete tabs. Try it out and let us know what you think!

[Sin_Shadow_Fox]

@Jon  Please re-read the idea. We're looking for a way to disable this feature outright. Each tab already has an x in the upper right corner that can close the tab, an additional swiping feature to close them is unnecessary and 200 people want to turn it off completely.

[Jon]

@Sin_Shadow_Fox thanks for following up! Yea, I didn't want to mark it as delivered since it didn't quite solve the request - so let me bring this back to the team.

[yakuzza]

I'm satisfied with "less sensitive". So far it works well and not causing problems👍

[WI_Hedgehog]

@Jon: 137 is significantly better, 136 is really, really frustrating under certain circumstances (like early in the morning still bleery-eyed when using Firefox for work and it's important to not close tabs accidentally).

However similar to what @Sin_Shadow_Fox mentions Swipe To Close unnecessarily duplicates existing functionality, in a bad way. Further, redundant code leads to bloat, maintainability issues, potential exploits, etc. "Tight is right" (less code, more functionality) is almost always the way to go.

Thank you and the team for the attention to the issue and dialing down the sensitivity, maybe the swipe feature could be removed completely.

[Hextor]

Be be clear, I didn't care if there was a disable option created or if the change that was made that turned the "Side Swipe Close" in to "hyper-active unusable deletion" was reversed.

Even though it took 1.5 years dial the sensitivity back to what it had always been; I am perfectly happy with the simple reversion.

[yroph]

I would rather just have the option to disable the swipe to close gesture altogether.  

[bk1]

This is insane

Why didn't the option to entirely disable this gesture get implemented? There's clearly enough people willing to search out and comment on the problem to warrant it. 

Please. Please don't be user hostile.

[TW8punk]

While I am very happy and grateful that the swipe to kill problem has been fixed, my Firefox wish list includes having the option to disable every feature (new and old). If something doesn't work properly causing user dissatisfaction, we can pull the plug for however long it takes to fix. Less pressure on the development team too. You know it makes sense 😉

[AxeSwipeToClose]

why is the feature duplicated across a very visible obvious X and an annoying accidental swipe? Add "disable swipes" as an accessibility feature.

[dietz123]

How can I disable the "Back" gesture on desktop versions?

I often want to select text with the mouse, and often the browser interprets it as back.  I am on a desktop computer where swipes just don't make sense!

I have lost a lot of work filling in lengthy forms on the web because the browser navigated back, and the form contents could not be recovered.