Here’s a situation we’re bound to see repeated a lot in the next few months. Google has kicked out a Chrome for Mac update to its developer channel in the wake of OS X Lion and things have got a little confusing. As well as removing window scrollbars by default and making them appear only when you’re scrolling, which mimicks the look of other Lion apps including Safari, Google has returned gesture controls to the browser. But there’s a slight problem.
In OS X Snow Leopard, Chrome let you flip through pages with three-finger swipes but that was broken when Apple took that gesture for moving between desktops and full-screen apps in Lion. Google has replaced the gesture with two-finger swipes but they’re now effectively backwards in Apple’s new world of inverted scrolling.
Since this version of Chrome is just a developer build, we’re sure Google will add the option to reverse the gestures in the full release but this definitely once again flags up the issue with Apple suddenly changing the conventions!
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