FireGestures 1.0.5: Add mouse gestures to Firefox

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FireGestures 1.0.5: Add mouse gestures to Firefox

by Simon Kerbel Mar 14th 2008

FireGestures is a new Firefox extension that enables mouse gestures in the Firefox web browser.

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)

A default set of gestures is activated upon installation of FireGestures, though you can remap any function to most any gesture. You can also add your own gesture with its own specific function through use of scripts.

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?

[via Softpedia]

Tags: extensions, firefox, firegestures, mouse gestures, MouseGestures

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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.

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.

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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