Disabling swiping gestures in mobile chrome browser

Question

Mobile chrome (IOS/Android) has a feature where if you swipe at the left or right hand margins of the screen it changes tabs.

My web app uses swiping, and this \"feature

Answer 1

No, there's no way to disable this gesture.

There's a ticket requesting the feature over at https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117657 if you want to star it / chime in.

Answer 2

If you use two/multi fingers, the swipe works even from the edge/borders.