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.

[k-mouse]

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