FireGestures 1.0.5: Add mouse gestures to Firefox

by Simon Kerbel on March 14, 2008 at 05:00 PM

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, freeware, mouse gestures, MouseGestures