FireGestures Adds Mouse Gestures Navigation On Firefox [Add-On]

Previously we have covered a Google Chrome extension called Smooth Gestures which adds cool navigation via mouse gesture in Chrome. There are some similar add-ons for Firefox whose will offer missing gesture navigation on Firefox too. One of them are FireGestures. FireGestures is an extension for Firefox that does all that and more. The extension lets you customize mouse gesture for any predefined function. It allows you to change how a mouse gesture appears (the line color, thickness, idle time etc.) and define specific functions using a combination of the Ctrl, Shift and Alt keys with mouse movements. The slight flaw with it is that if it reaches the last tab in a window, it starts again from the first and you can scroll till doomsday without realizing you’ve already reached the last tab but it is nonetheless a great way to switch tabs. More after the break.

This add on have the following kind of options

• Mouse Gestures (Moving mouse with holding right-button)
• Wheel Gestures (Scrolling wheel with holding right-button)
• Rocker Gestures (Left-click with holding right-button and vice versa)
• Keypress Gestures (Mouse gesture with holding Ctrl / Shift key)
• Tab Wheel Gestures (Scrolling wheel on the tab bar)

Features

Mouse Gestures

Moving mouse with holding right-button to execute various commands. You can assign gestures to commands in [Options] > [Mappings]. For example,
» moving mouse to left to go back in the history and right to go forward.
» moving mouse to up-left to switch to previous tab and up-right to next tab.

Wheel Gestures

» Scrolling up wheel with holding right-button to show 'Back / Forward History' popup by default.
» Scrolling down wheel with holding right-button to show 'List all tabs' popup by default.
Scrolling wheel furthermore changes the current selection in popup and releasing right-button executes command.

Rocker Gestures

» Left-click with holding right-button to 'Previous Tab' by default.
» Right-click with holding left-button to 'Next Tab' by default.
You can execute rocker gestures more than once by left-clicking repeatedly with holding right-button and vice versa, as long as you don't move mouse.

Keypress Gestures

» Mosue gesture with holding Ctrl key to open hovered links in tabs by default.
» Mouse gesture with holding Shift key to save hovered links by default.

Tab Wheel Gestures

Scrolling mouse wheel on a tab to switch to the next tab.

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