Firegesture is one of the Firefox extension I can’t surf without, it has totally blended into my daily surfing life that I’d feel handicap without it.
You can execute various commands and user scripts with five types of mouse gestures:
- Mouse Gestures (Move mouse with holding right-click)
- Wheel Gestures (Scroll wheel with holding right-click)
- Rocker Gestures (Left-click with holding right-click and vice versa)
- Keypress Gestures (Mouse gesture with holding Ctrl / Shift key)
- Tab Wheel Gestures (Scrolling wheel on the tab bar)Additionally, you can install and make your own scripts to add functions
Summary: It offers mouse gesture commands which you could trigger easily without having to click on the exact buttons on your browser to execute a command.
Say you wanna open the search result in a new tab:
- right click on the link
- move your mouse down
- release right click
There, you got the link opened in a new tab, easy?
You can also write your own scripts to customize your own needs, or just head over to Fire Gesture official website for some predefined scripts. There’s a whole list of commands you can execute just by your mouse, I’ll leave it for you to explore.
Oh wait, you’re using IE? Then you really should really try out Firefox, there’s a reason why Firefox overtakes IE6 in market share
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Here, here!
It’s also definitely worth going to the site and the “get scripts” section, there’s a few gems there. Unforunately, there’s no designated place to post user scripts. I found a few on github, but there slightly more specialized.
I always update my google search to within the past year and got tired to choosing the options everytime, so I made the script here: https://gist.github.com/1163723
Although it can implement any google search tool with a change in one line of code, which I setup for implementation.