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FireGestures 1.0.5: Add mouse gestures to Firefox
by Simon Kerbel Mar 14th 2008 at 5:00PM
If you've never tried using mouse gestures with Firefox or any other program, FireGestures is a great place to start, offering out-of-the-box functionality along with accessible advanced options.
With FireGestures, you can perform various commands with five types of mouse gestures:
- Mouse Gestures (Move mouse with holding right-click)
- Wheel Gestures (Scroll wheel with holding right-click)
- Rocker Gestures (Left-click with holding right-click and vice versa)
- Keypress Gestures (Mouse gesture with holding Ctrl / Shift key)
- Tab Wheel Gestures (Scrolling wheel on the tab bar)
We like the FireGestures extension, but we've also become accustomed to having system-wide mouse gestures with programs such as XGestures, and/or the Quicksilver plug-in Abacadabra (with functionality equal to the keypress gestures in FireGestures). Of course those programs are for the Mac only.
We're sure that someone out there has found a good Windows program to implement system-wide mouse gestures...or are we better off with program-specific solutions such as FireGestures?
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Sean said 6:14PM on 3-14-2008
There is a good windows program called StrokeIt. The developers site appears down but Google has a cache of it. There are also details of it here - http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/StrokeIt/1007451443/1
I've used it for a few years now.
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michael said 7:00PM on 3-14-2008
There's also a nice add-on that's bee with IE7 for a long time called IE7 Pro. It also includes mouse gestures : http://ie7pro.com/
It's been there for a while now.
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Kenny said 8:38AM on 3-16-2008
Mouse gestures? Oh, you mean like Opera has had built-in for YEARS now (Maxthon too).
For a better web experience:
http://www.opera.com/
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