Native mouse gestures on desktop

[wyvorn]

Please implement native mouse gestures in the desktop browser (I am personally on Windows) like in Opera. The current implementations from add-ons are very unreliable, finicky or don't work at all in some placed, e.g. in a New tab, Settings, while the mouse is over a video (in YT, for example) etc. Thank you for considering it.

[1_15379]

It is suggested to add the "Mouse Gesture" feature to the softwares.

[Jon]

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[StalneyGuevarra]

I cannot upvote this enough. Gestures are awesome, but only if those work across the whole app. I've installed Gesturefy extension recently, and it reminded me of times when Firefox had gestures working everywhere (I don't recall if this was done via extension or was it native, but I really miss those).

I guess its due to extension security reasons, but surely there has to be a way to bring this functionality back without compromising security...

[KERR]

This would be great for people who don't have precision touchpads - they're not able to use the touch gestures.

[nol]

+1,

The native mouse gestures could work better than these third-party extensions, these extension don't work on some special pages.

I tried some other browsers for mouse gesture and found cent browser and maxthon, their mouse gesture is very smooth and convenient.

I think it would be better for general users that Firefox could implement it.

[nol]

Though some third-party extensions can do the same work. Maybe due to security issue, these extension don't work on some special pages, eg:

• new tab page,
• Settings page,
• Manage extensions page,
• These "about:xxx" pages,
• https://addons.mozilla.org,
• the pages that are in loading status
• ...etc

I tried some other browsers for mouse gesture, found cent browser and maxthon that provide native mouse gestures which is very smooth and convenient. Their native mouse gestures work better than these third-party extensions.

I think it would be better for general users that Firefox could implement it.

[Jon]

(Note: a similar idea has been merged into this thread)

[zakius]

we need Fire Gestures back, the ContentScript based workarounds are way limited due to API restrictions

[hmars]

One of the main reasons why I haven't completely switched to Firefox yet.

[KERR]

Basic gesture support on desktop

In the past we could use Backspace to go back a page, now we have to awkwardly use Alt+Left Arrow.

You can also right click on the page, move the mouse to the ⬅️ and click.

How about a faster way of navigating back a page, by double right clicking? It's intentional enough that it's unlikely you'd activate it by accident, and fast enough to speed up your browsing. It's also easier to do with a touchpad (instead of some gestures where you have to hold right click and drag.

Maybe to refresh the page you could click and hold both the left and right mouse buttons for a couple seconds?

You could also put the middle mouse click to additional use, I only use it to open links in new tabs.

Thoughts? Note that I have a touchpad with physical buttons, I know many newer ones integrate the buttons into the touchpad which could be more annoying to use. Obviously an external mouse would still work.

[Jon]

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[Jon]

Similar idea here: Native mouse gesture 

[k-mouse]

I agree, this is the main reason why I haven't been able to make Firefox my primary browser yet.

[Grubbygan]

Firefox will Build in Native Mouse Gesture?

As Chrome has added mouse gestures in the new version , Firefox will follow? Native mouse gestures is very important and useful function for some users.....looking forward it

[amuneric]

I use firefox to manage gitlab in an air-gapped network (zero Internet connectivity) and no extensions are allowed (security blah blah blah). Having native gestures would be so, so wonderful!