Gesturefy: Mouse gestures in Firefox

Gesturefy is a Firefox extension with which you can execute gesture commands with your mouse.

Mouse gestures were a popular feature in the old Opera, when the Opera browser was still based on its own Presto engine and Chrome did not even exist. These simple shortcuts can save you a few clicks and therefore time. Firefox in turn can give you the ability to gesture through the Gesturefy extention.

The additional Gesturefy Once installed in Firefox it starts and educates users on how to use mouse gestures. More specifically, it tells you to right-click, hold the button and drag the mouse down. This gesture executes a command and specifically so you can go to the bottom of the page.

When a gesture is performed, three visual elements are displayed. One is a small line in the cursor position, called a gesture trace ( trace), which shows the movement of the mouse. The other is an OSD (on-screen) text that tells you what the gesture is doing. For example, when you activate the aforementioned gesture, you will see a text that says "Scroll to the bottom" and you will also see some arrow symbols that represent it.

You will see similar things for the "Page Back" gesture, where you just need to right-click and move the censor to the left.

Of course there are many more gestures available at Gesturefy. The add-on does not display a button in the program , but has an options page that includes all the moves. Here's what you can do with it:

  • Create a new tab
  • Close tab
  • Tab Reset
  • Reload tab
  • Go one page back
  • Go one page forward
  • Go to the top
  • Scroll down
  • Focus on the right tab
  • Focus on the left tab
  • Open the Gesturefy settings

Some gestures require multiple actions, which must be done in a sequence, while constantly holding the right mouse button. For example, to open a new tab, right-click and drag the cursor down and then up without releasing the mouse button. It may sound difficult at first, but you can make it easy if you do not drag it too far. When you make the gesture as short as possible, you will realize how convenient it is.

Adjustment
You don't like a gesture you can create your own using the + button or you can change an existing one by clicking on it. The process s consists of three steps: command, gesture instructions and label.

Gesturefy lets you adjust line color, opacity, width, thickness, command font color, size, and gesture direction color. The Blacklist option can be used to add sites where gestures will be disabled.

Rocker gestures
In addition there are some more advanced gestures and they are disabled by default. Go to the Extras menu on the add-on page to enable them. Rocker gestures use both mouse buttons. For example, right-click and hold the left-click button to execute a command. Or use the reverse (left click and right click). Of course, this is limited to 2 combinations, but the good news is that you can customize them.

Wheel gestures
Hold right or left of the mouse and use the scroll wheel to make a gesture.

In conclusion
Gesturefy is an open source add-on for Firefox. THE it provides a very aesthetic way of browsing web pages and with this you don't have to move the mouse to the tab bar every time you want to switch, close, open tabs. Especially those who use gestures to navigate on a mobile phone will find this plugin very familiar.

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