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.

[zakius]

We used to have Fire Gestures

and while I understand the limitations behind Content Script injection we should be able to expand the permissions for extensions we trust, that would take care of like 95% of frustration of WebExtensions implemented gestures, surely some would still be there (being limited to the viewport, having to run and sync multiple instances across multiple frames), but that would be a great improvement

[Ciastko]

Add mouse gestures

I Like it in opera gx/one 

so it would be nice to have it in firefox :3

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[yuimbo]

Huuge +1

Mouse gestures are so instinctively ingrained in how I navigate.

This is literally the only missing feature keeping me from using Firefox as my daily driver.

[golebiow6]

Native gestures which works in system tabs are the only thing why I cannot move from my current web browser to Firefox.

[HyphenSam]

+1
Microsoft Edge has this as a native feature.

[flavior]

I'd love to see this as a native feature.

[Materika]

Mouse gestures that work on any page.
I need this.

[Materika]

I use vivaldi for mouse gestures that work on any page.
However, vivaldi is very unstable.
I would gladly migrate to firefox if it was included in firefox.

[kamen]

Another "I haven't switched because I'd miss gestures" from my part. I've been a long time Opera and then Vivaldi user, and given the impending manifest v3 (that might or might not affect Vivaldi), I'm contemplating a switch.

[Skywind]

I strongly support this idea. Edge has this built-in gesture, and it works all across the whole browser. This experience is not something that can be matched by a third-party extension. Let's make it happening, dear Mozilla!

[suikaz]

correction: the experience could be matched if we had an API for that, though I'm assuming privacy and security concerns cause it to be unlikely to surface (though I still believe that extensions we intentionally install should be able to do so, even if we'd need to go to the settings and manually enable that ability)

[viteo]

was using gestures on old opera presto (before it became chropera), now on vivaldi, and i wan't to switch to firefox, but lack of native support stops me. 

[JRBerger]

Native mouse gestures for efficiency, disability support, and addon management

Gesture functionality should be automatically included in the Firefox browser along with a few pre-configured setups. This would drastically improve the average user experience, of which typically don't install additional addons. This would create an extremely useful feature for Firefox, creating reason for average users to use Firefox as their default browser.

Average users do not know the command shortcuts for their browser, but can easily learn gesture shortcuts from moving their mouse while holding right click (or some other button) into a pre-defined pattern. This would also save an immense amount of time for less-adept users who struggle to find basic browser elements such as the url, back/forward button, new tab, and etc. This would also immensly help disabled and visually impared users on the browser by the same standards. For example, if the browser were to have a magnifier glass function, one could easily activate and deactivate it using a simple gesture of the mouse. The gestures could also be integrated for bookmarks, pocket, and other user-installed addons.

Furthermore, adding gesture mechanics natively to the browser, will allow the use of the gestures on locked tabs, such as new tabs and firefox domain pages. The toggling of the gesture mechanic can be placed as a button in the toolbar next to the pocket button so that users can easily toggle the mechanic if it is causing issues and right clicked if the user needs a refresher of what gestures are currently set.

While this issue will not likely get a ton of coverage, not adding this feature natively is a huge missed opportunity for the Mozilla company and or any browser. I believe that this feature will eventually be a default de facto feature in all browsers as it saves time and effort from the most advanced users to users that struggle due to disability or inadeptness navigating the browser.

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)