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    Disabling Chrome's arrow overlay

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by saturnotaku, May 4, 2012.

  1. saturnotaku

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    I've done some searching and haven't been able to find an answer. Is there any way to disable the arrow overlay in Chrome on OS X? I actually would prefer to use Chrome over Firefox, but that stupid arrow popup is really annoying. If there's some kind of file I can modify or a script/extension out there, I'd love to know about it.
     
    saturnotaku, May 4, 2012
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    doh123 Without ME its just AWESO

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    arrow overlay? I use Chrome quite a bit and I have no idea what you are talking about..
     
    doh123, May 5, 2012
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    Two-finger swipe to go backward or forward. Whenever you do this, a left or right arrow pops up as the page transitions.
     
    saturnotaku, May 5, 2012
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    Is that the white arrow in the middle of the page? I thought I saw it in firefox as well, though not so much in safari.
     
    shriek11, May 5, 2012
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    I agree that it's really annoying in OS X because there is a tendency for it to happen when I intended to just scroll left or right on the page
     
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    Bingo. Guess I'll have to wait for Firefox 14 as that's when Lion full screen support is slated for official implementation.
     
    saturnotaku, May 5, 2012
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