Firefox Addon #2 - Mouse Gestures
Posted on August 26th, 2007 by Oleg K
Tags: add on firefox mouse gestures Tools
This is a nifty little tool which was copied from Opera. By dragging your mouse in different ways, Firefox performs different operations. For example, I set all operations to right+click and drag:
7 U 9
L X R
1 D 3
- D - refresh page
- D U - New tab
- L - Back
- R - Forward
- L D R - View cookies for the page (very useful when programming)
- U - New tab
- 3 - Increase font size
- 9 - Hide image
- L U - Stop
All this is customizable and after you get used to using it, it saves so much time and is so much faster than clicking on all the different buttons.
For more features and download, go to http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures/installation.html
If you already have Mouse Gestures, have recently upgraded, and all of your gestures are missing (happened to me) this is what you need to do:
- In Firefox, go to Tools > Addons > Uninstall Mouse Gestures
- Run (windows+r): Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
- Enter your profile and delete a file called mousegestures.rdf
- Reinstall mouse gestures
and it should work.
This is a fantastic time-saver and one that should be built into Firefox.
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