Gesturefy

Navigate, operate, and browse faster with mouse gestures! A customizable mouse gesture add-on with a variety of different commands.
What is Gesturefy?
Gesturefy is a revolutionary Firefox add-on that enhances the functionalities of your mouse. With over 80 pre-defined commands, users can easily navigate and operate websites by simply performing various mouse gestures. Ideal for users who prefer mouse navigation over keyboard shortcuts, Gesturefy offers customizability and convenience without compromising the overall browsing experience.

Add-on stats

Rating: 4.47 (1,369)
Version: 3.2.13 (Last updated: 2024-08-05)
Creation date: 2017-05-30
Weekly download count: 4,216
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • <all_urls>
  • storage
  • notifications
  • browserSettings
Size: 675.60K
URLs: Website

Other platforms

Not available on Chrome
Not available on Edge
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Add-on summary

Gesturefy is a pure mouse gesture extension, which means it's only suited for mice and not touchpads. "What's a mouse gesture?" you might ask yourself. Well, mouse gestures are like keyboard shortcuts, only for your mouse. Instead of pressing a bunch of keys, you simply move your mouse in a certain manner to execute commands and actions. Mouse gestures can be more natural and convenient than keyboard shortcuts and thus are also suitable for casual users. Wait, is that a mouse in your hand? Come and try it out :)

Features:

  • Mouse gestures (moving the mouse while holding the left, middle, or right button)
  • More than 80 different predefined commands
  • Provides special commands like popup, user script, multi purpose and cross add-on command
  • Customizable gesture trace and status information style
  • Rocker gestures (left-click while holding the right mouse button and vice versa)
  • Wheel gestures (scroll wheel while holding the left, middle, or right button)
  • Multilingual, thanks to volunteers on Crowdin
  • Light, dark and highcontrast theme
Limitations:
  • Gesturefy does not work on Mozilla related pages like addons.mozilla.org, internal pages like about:addons or other add-on option pages (e.g. moz-extension://*). This is because Firefox restricts add-ons from accessing these pages for security reasons.
  • The page must be partially loaded to perform gestures.
  • MacOS Sierra: Wheel gestures currently doesn't work (see this bug)
If you want to support Gesturefy, please visit this page!

Permissions explained:

  • Access your data for all websites: This is a key permission, because the complete gesture functionality is injected in every webpage you visit (which means a part of the code is running in each tab). This is necessary, because with the new API there is no other way to track your mouse movement or draw anything on the screen. It's also needed to perform page specific commands like scroll down or up.
  • Read and modify browser settings: This is required to change the context menu behaviour for MacOS and Linux users to support the usage of the right mouse button.
  • Display notifications: This is used to show a notification on Gesturefy updates or to display certain error messages.

User reviews

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Pros
  • Essential for enhancing browser usage
  • Has been used for years without major issues
  • Great for users who are accustomed to mouse gestures
Cons
  • Does not support Wacom tablet input
  • Settings do not sync across devices
Most mentioned
  • Enhances overall browsing experience
  • Limited compatibility with non-mouse input devices
Recent reviews
Amazing!!!

Hey dev can you add support for wacom tablet input or no? The issue: Even though without the extension there is no discernible difference between holding right mouse button with my pen while hovering the above the tablet to drag the cursor downwards compared to if I use mouse to do so, but with the extension installed only the mouse is able to activate gesturefy. For some reason the pen input still just activates the right click menu. I would definitely use this if it worked with my pen (edit. I just read the "it's only suited for mice and not touchpads" under the about section, I am unsure if that is intended to also apply to wacom tablet/ windows ink input. If nothing else maybe add them to the disclaimer so people using a pen input don't feel inclined to ask for features that you don't plan adding on or can't add for somereason.)
by Dru_Wave, 2024-11-07

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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Gesturefy requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Gesturefy has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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