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Gesturefy by Robbendebiene

Navigate, operate, and browse faster with mouse gestures! A customizable mouse gesture add-on with a variety of different commands.

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Gesture: Page backGesture: Reload tabSettingsGesture overviewAdd gesture/commandGesture overview (dark mode)Rocker and Wheel gesture
About this extension
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.
Developer comments
If you've encountered a bug, or if you have any problems, please do not write a review in order to report it. Mainly because reviews make it impossible to have a solution-oriented conversation about the problem. Of course I don't want to restrain you from downvoting my extension if you don't like it!

Use Github instead and provide detailed information like: browser version, add-on version, maybe the website where Gesturefy fails etc. and describe steps how to reproduce the problem.

Thank you.
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Required permissions:

  • Read and modify browser settings
  • Display notifications to you
  • Access your data for all web sites

Optional permissions:

  • Read and modify bookmarks
  • Clear recent browsing history, cookies, and related data
  • Get data from the clipboard
  • Input data to the clipboard
  • Download files and read and modify the browser’s download history
  • Access recently closed tabs
  • Access browser tabs
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Add-on Links
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Version
3.2.14
Size
663.19 kB
Last updated
10 days ago (28 Jul 2025)
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Licence
GNU General Public Licence v3.0 only
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Release notes for 3.2.14
  • Fix left click not working when using the left mouse button as the gesture activation button
  • Improve "Insert Custom Text" command to work with "[Popup] Custom Command List" command
  • Add new translations from Crowdin. Thanks to all contributors!
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