Mouse Gestures in Mozilla

Posted by michael on Saturday October 6, 2001 @05:52AM from the still-pumped-from-using-the-mouse dept.

Jedbro writes: "I have really enjoyed the mouse gestures in Opera since its release, since then I have come across an awesome new project at Mozdev, called OptiMoz. OptiMoz (a.k.a. MozGest) is a XPI for Mozilla allowing Mouse Gestures to be available. It works great with Mozilla 0.9.4 and nightly builds. It currently has Gestures for: *New Tab Window (Moz Tabs!!) *Forward in History *Backward in History *Reload *New Document *Up a directory in the URL *View Source *View Cookies for Current Domain *View Meta Data for Domain and *Access Homepage."

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Re:Even better by Troodon · 2001-10-06 06:11 · Score: 2, Offtopic

Only if you happen to be browsing resting both hands upon the keyboard. Personally I prefer to sit back and just use the mouse in one hand, switching back to the keyboard, positioning both hands is just an inconvience at this point. I can happily browse with little use of the keyboard with just four simple quick guestures in Opera: open new window from a link, close window, forward and back, whatever. As for RSI, personally Im more held up trying to remember not to wack the keys and thus damage my joints.
Whatever, personal preference and frankly I find it more intuitive.

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