Foxy Gestures

Mouse gestures for Firefox. A web extension alternative to FireGestures created by a long time FireGestures user.

What is Foxy Gestures?

Foxy Gestures is a Firefox add-on inspired by FireGestures, granting users extensive mouse gesture options. Offering gesture implementation using left, middle, or right button, along with wheel and chord gestures, the extension equips its users with configurable mapping and the ability to add new commands. It also extends support for customizable gesture timeout, trails, and status text during gestures. However, due to Web Extension APIs limitations, this add-on, as powerful as it is, cannot integrate into about:newtab, about:home, etc., or operate on addons.mozilla.org.

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By: liebs

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Users: 21,423 ▲ 185

Rating: 4.21 (493) ▲ 1 new ratings

Version: 1.2.12 (Last updated: 2021-10-18)

Creation date: 2017-04-07

Weekly download count: 278

Firefox on Android: No

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

browserSettings
cookies
contextualIdentities
sessions
storage
tabs

Size: 989.66K

Email: ma*****@liebs.ca

URLs: Website

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# 507 ▲ 1

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#14 in Other extensions

#31 in Appearance

#1 in rest keyword 31

#3 in future keyword 9

#4 in configure keyword 12

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Read the addon description below before installing! There are web extension limitations compared to FireGestures.

Starting with FF60 and FG1.1.1, I've implemented optional permissions for bookmarks, clipboardWrite, and downloads. It means those permission are not required unless you assign related commands. For more information, read https://github.com/marklieberman/foxygestures/wiki/Why-Permissions-Are-Required

Starting with FF58 and FG1.1.0, the OSX/Linux right-click issue is resolved.

This addon implements mouse gestures for Firefox and is heavily inspired by FireGestures. Foxy Gestures currently implements a large amount of FireGestures functionality:

Mouse gestures using left, middle, or right button.
Wheel gestures using gesture button + wheel.
Chord gestures with configurable chords.
Configurable gesture mapping with many built-in commands.
Implement new commands with user provided scripts.
Configurable gesture timeout and gesture trails.
Status text during gestures with customizable styles.
Diagonal gesture support if enabled in options.

Unfortunately, there are many limitations due to limited or absent Web Extension APIs. As a web extension, this add-on will never be as powerful as FireGestures. This extension cannot integrate into about:newtab, about:home, view-source:, etc. Nor will it work on addons.mozilla.com, since web extensions are forbidden from interacting with the add-on store. Mouse gestures don't work until the DOM has parsed.

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