Disabling swiping gestures in mobile chrome browser

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" just seems to get in the way. Is there a way to disable this?

How do I turn on Chrome gestures?

Open up Chrome for Android and type “chrome://flags” in the address bar at the top. Once in the flags area, type “history nav” in the search bar. When you see the “History navigation with gesture” option, tap the box where it says “Default.” Tap on the “Enable” option.

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.