Let me use mouse gestures (and not only) on more pages

[suikaz]

You featured both Foxy Gestures and Gesturefy and yet I can't even close the blank tab using any of them. Not to mention tabs of other extensions and some arbitrarily chosen domains.

I know, security, privacy and such, but if I intentionally go to the settings, permissions and out of my free will allow the extension to work on these pages that's fine, it isn't as risky as merely installing them, right?

I don't want to rely on fragile alternatives, if you want us to be actually secure let us use officially supported methods to get things done, nowadays it defeats the purpose of the whole extensions overhaul

[Jon]

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[ShadesOfGrey]

I think it's pretty basic and obvious. Almost all browsers have this functionality one way or the other.

In general, risk of addons maliciously blocking access to browsing experience can be almost completely mitigated by 'no-addon' startup variance in Firefox (like we have 'Private mode' now). That should completely deter addon authors from malicious intent, since it can only be done once a career.

Other than that, allowing addons access to locked tabs provides little to no extra risk compared to just installing such addons and granting them access they require, as far as I can see it. And again, if I can't see something -- like addon switching some mysterious kill-switch in about:config erasing Firefox, operating system and the closest to keyboard person -- those can be specifically protected.

But that's speaking in general concerning addon security. In this specific case, I would propose including Gesturefy functionality into base Firefox first and foremost. Browsing without gestures is excruciating pain for me since I've first touched those several decades ago -- and gestures are essentially a must in a browser for me. If I can't use gestures, I'm forced to switch browser. And Firefox falls somewhere in between the cases -- it's easy to open a tab with a gesture that you cannot close with a gesture. It feels like suddenly hitting your hand against something.

Besides, it's not extremely complex task, it's customizable and, if someone can't abide using gestures for some reason (like glitchy input device that produces wrong gestures all the time), can be disabled like many other features. Also, keeping your gestures when migrating would go a long way with a person like me.