Lion has been touted as the most gesture-friendly of all the OS X releases, with more pinches and swipes for Launchpad and Mission Control and Spaces than ever before, and yet it has taken away one of the most basic swipes in my day-to-day computing: the three finger back gesture.
Snow Leopard let me swipe with three fingers to move back in Finder, iTunes, and iPhoto, and it worked in most every web browser out there. Lion is almost the complete opposite.
Sure, the back gesture and accompanying animation look great in Safari, but I find it so strange that three-finger swipes to the left and right don’t work anywhere else. I think this is a real pity and a very strange missing feature in Lion — as if Apple was so dead set on bringing OS X forward that they forgot that some people like to look back (and no, pressing delete/backspace doesn’t cut it). Anybody else lamenting the inability to swipe and return to the past (screen)?
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