Reviews for Simple Gesture for Android
Simple Gesture for Android by utubo
Review by Grumbely
Rated 1 out of 5
by Grumbely, 5 years agoNot working as of 68.0.2. Also, there is no explanation anywhere of how to actually use the plugin. The gestures are only listed as strings of letters (such as “D-L-U”) representing cardinal directions (which is not explained, you need to have used similar plug-ins which do explain it) but no explanation of where or how to execute these gestures.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoAny add-on of Firefox does not work on some special pages. (e.g. "about:...", "https://support.mozilla.org" and "https://addons.mozilla.org")
I added this to "About this extension".
I am sorry for taking up your time.
I added this to "About this extension".
I am sorry for taking up your time.
140 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by krix, 2 months agouseful and well-implemented add-on. Finally gifts FF-Androud users a nice UI experience, after Moz decided to cripple the UI some years ago.
Why does it need clip-board access though?Developer response
posted 2 months agoThis needs clip-board access though for custom gestures (=user script).
I will summarize the permissions.
Thank you for your review
(2024/07/20)
> I will summarize the permissions.
I done. (see About Extensions) - Rated 4 out of 5by Dan, 5 months agoIt's a useful extension but there's one issue. If you have one tab open and you close it with a gesture, that tab freezes. It doesn't open the homepage.
- Rated 5 out of 5by AndyL964, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by MikeRL, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16921816, 6 months agoVery nice extension! Thank you so much for this.
I would love for there to be a gesture for saving the current webpage as a bookmark.Developer response
posted 6 months agoSorry, Firefox for Android does not support the Bookmarks API for add-ons.😢
Thank you for your review. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17962956, 7 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18145926, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by nickel3000, 7 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by islisis, 8 months agoVery nice addon, I would continue to use it if all of the notifications including timeouts could be hidden.
Developer response
posted 8 months ago> the notifications including timeouts could be hidden.
I fixed to hide the timeouts when 'Diaplay Command' is disabled in v3.12.2.
Thank you for your review. - Rated 5 out of 5by Whatzet2U, 8 months agoIt'll do just about whatever you want it to. Reaching out to dev to request edge swipe support. Would provide just a bit more for my purposes.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18222953, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Subtilt, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kristhian X., 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17634140, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by blue, 9 months agoSimple and complete. It's also good to be able to edit gestures. Perfectly matches the features I was looking for.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14229944, 9 months agoApplication très utile, permet d'utiliser des actions variées avec des gestes personnalisés.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16762879, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Samisan, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by huginn, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SKITTLE LA, 9 months agoEasily the best of the non-recommended Android extensions so far. I used Simple Gesture pre Fenix and am so glad it works in Android again.
Only thing I can think of that would make it better is a "open link in background tab" double-tap function (might not be possible.)
EDIT: Double tap (or other gestures) already works for opening a link in a new tab! Friggin' awesome! Fantastic extension.Developer response
posted 9 months agoOK, I will add it in the next version.
Please note that single tap is delayed to wait for double tap and that the add-on does not open links in the background on Android.
Thank you for your review.
(2023/12/21)
I added it in v3.7.1👍