Touchpad / Mousepad Gesture: Swipe through Tabs on Desktop

[Sitt]

On ChromeOS (and maybe other os) Google added a feature, that lets you switch the open tab by swiping on a touchpad witch 3 fingers. This feels increadably intuitive and i would love to see a firefox equivilant implementation.

Other Touchpad Gestures are already supported in the current nightly build so, im guessing this is possible as well.

Technicly this can be done witch 3ed party programs (at least on linux), by mapping 3 finger swipe to crtl  (+ shift ) + tab, but that can lead to weired unwhanted zooming an other problems. Also a firefox native solution would support some animations.

[Jon]

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[BangabusComings]

is this idea got implemented or nah ? I'm from Edge browser and i used to this feature, it'll be easier to transition if we have this feature. thanks !

[BangabusComings]

does this feature got implemented ? im from Edge browser and transitioned to Mozilla. it seems this feature will help the browser and if this is already implemented could anyone help me how to do it ? thanks !

[tukanoid]

Hey, just popping in to say that the feature would definitely be appreciated. I main laptops (both home and work) and I prefer using touchpad instead of a mouse whenever I can (Linux, experience is usually much smoother than on Windows, at least for me), and it would be very time-saving to have this feature here. I find myself hopping between tabs quite frequently, and moving the cursor to the tabbar all the time is a bit frustrating. Thanks!

[musterdgun]

I used to use chromeOS for school and the 3 finger swipe gesture was a godsend. would use this feature every day if it eventually gets implemented.

[ashyffer]

I 1000% agree, the 3 finger tab change (or some other combination of track pad motions) speeds up general search ergonomics so much and makes tab switching far more seamless. I would really appreciate if this feature could be integrated into Firefox as a recent switch from Chrome as it is a feature that I miss.

[Paged89]

I also want this feature. Having a built in tab switch with gestures really makes sitting on the laptop a more fluent experience.

[monji]

I also want this feature too. The only reason I keep using Chromebook is because of this feature. If Firefox has same feature I will definitely will change to Linux.

[pholidotea]

Hey all!

For Windows users, I figured out how to achieve an effect similar to the 3 finger swipe gesture without third-party apps. This will only allow you to swipe one tab to the left/right at a time, so it's just a temporary workaround while we wait for this feature to be officially implemented:

1. Open Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Touchpad > Advanced Gestures

2. Under "Configure three-finger gestures"...

... set "Swipe left" to the custom shortcut Ctrl + Shift + Tab (Go one Tab to the Left / Up)

...and set "Swipe right" to the custom shortcut Ctrl + Tab (Go one Tab to the Right / Down)

The finished product should look something like this:

3. That's it! (Make sure the setting "Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order" is unchecked in Firefox settings.)