Reviews for Gesturefy
Gesturefy by Robbendebiene
Review by jason
Rated 3 out of 5
by jason, 3 years agoIt's good, works well, only real complaint is it's a little 'strict' with how precise the gestures have to be. I've used many of these over the years. I use 'up-right-up' to copy a tab, and only with gesturefy do I have to redo that gesture several times before the extension accepts it. It has to be pretty close to 'right angled' turns. Moreso than other apps I've used.
And it's also missing one function that an older extension used to have. To be fair, I'm not sure any of the current ones have it. That's the ability to distinguish 'new tab' and 'open link in new tab' with the same gesture.
I used to have 'up' as create new tab. But when I would do 'up' over a link, it would open that link in the new tab. Cool feature that no one seems to do any more.
Edit to add: I can't find a way to reply to the developer so I guess I'll just do it here and if he sees it he sees it.
I believe I did have the 'combined' matching algorithm selected as that was the default and I wouldn't have changed it since I'm not sure what it does. I'm currently trying out the suggestion to use the "open empty tab" setting but so far it's not working. Tried it with some links off a DDG search. It only opened a new (blank) tab. We'll see.
And it's also missing one function that an older extension used to have. To be fair, I'm not sure any of the current ones have it. That's the ability to distinguish 'new tab' and 'open link in new tab' with the same gesture.
I used to have 'up' as create new tab. But when I would do 'up' over a link, it would open that link in the new tab. Cool feature that no one seems to do any more.
Edit to add: I can't find a way to reply to the developer so I guess I'll just do it here and if he sees it he sees it.
I believe I did have the 'combined' matching algorithm selected as that was the default and I wouldn't have changed it since I'm not sure what it does. I'm currently trying out the suggestion to use the "open empty tab" setting but so far it's not working. Tried it with some links off a DDG search. It only opened a new (blank) tab. We'll see.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoWhich matching algorithm are you using? You can check that in the settings page under advanced settings. I suggest using the "combined" matching algorithm.
> And it's also missing one function that an older extension used to have. To be fair, I'm not sure any of the current ones have it. That's the ability to distinguish 'new tab' and 'open link in new tab' with the same gesture.
You can do this by just creating a gesture with the "open link in new tab" command and activating the setting "open empty tab".
> And it's also missing one function that an older extension used to have. To be fair, I'm not sure any of the current ones have it. That's the ability to distinguish 'new tab' and 'open link in new tab' with the same gesture.
You can do this by just creating a gesture with the "open link in new tab" command and activating the setting "open empty tab".
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Cyberknight, 25 days agoI've used this extension since its early days. I'd tried others, but this has evolved a better interface. I have one suggestion: when a conflicting (ambiguous) gesture is found (two equal gestures for different actions), the extension tries the older action first, then tries the next. That could be an actual feature: same gestures should be executed in the order they appear in the list (the gestures would have to be shown as an ordered list for that), maybe adding a "break" option to stop the execution at a certain gesture (e.g., a single gesture could trigger a Save Link and a Save Image, in that order, but if the image was a link, an option could prevent the image from being saved.)
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- Rated 5 out of 5by LinusCDE, 2 months agoInitially discovered this feature in Vivaldi and got hooked hard. When I switched to Firefox, it was only thanks to this extension, since I could keep using the gestures I got used to.
I even checked for alternatives and it seems this extension for Firefox is the best one. You can't seemingly do this consistently on Chrome (on Linux at least).
If you love the back swipe gesture on touchpads, this is basically the same but for a mouse (even faster imo). No need setting up very complex gestures. Just as simple back gesture alone makes this extension worth everything.
Personally I use the back gesture (swipe left with mouse right button) and close + restore tab mostly. Though you can add pretty much everything imaginable which I love! - Rated 4 out of 5by R136a1, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14716474, 2 months agoThere is one inconvenience, when used for the gesture of the right mouse button, the context menu opens, there is no such problem in the “chrome” browser with this addition. Please make the context menu does not appear with a firefox when it is not needed.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18321676, 2 months ago
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