Reviews for Gesturefy
Gesturefy by Robbendebiene
74 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16051526, 5 years agoI will start by saying I have loved this extension ever since the first version. The only reason I'm giving it 1 star is to attract developer attention to a very annoying issue with the latest version 3.0.1.
Let me paint the picture first: Users who install gesture addons, like me, and you - who are reading this now, are very particular users. They value convenience and ease of use. They want effectiveness and elegance. In the case of gestures - they have to, first of all, work. And work well. When I draw that L-shape on the screen, I want to be sure that in at least 95% of the time it will get recognized and trigger the action I need. Otherwise the addon becomes more of an obstacle than a help. You have managed to be that reliable rock-solid addon for a long tim for me.
With the version 3.0.1. unfortunately, I have immediately noticed that something's wrong. My gestures are no longer recognised effectively. It seems now, that the length of the lines I draw have something to do with the recognition process. I can no longer draw a shape that starts and ends properly. Now I have to be sure that the length of each segment is correct. This adds a layer of complexity that I do not need, and am not willing to adopt. It is unnecessary. It is more complexity, less convenience. And for the sake of what exactly? I'm not sure.
I reverted to the version 2.1.6. which seems to work as it always has. I will use that for now.
But the most important take away for you - the developers - should be that I will now start looking for alternatives among your competitors. I want to e up to date with addon versions for the sake of security, and if your addon still does not work as expected, I will regretably switch.
Let me leave you with this simple thought:
"If it's not broken, don't fix it."
Hope I was of help. Cheers.Developer response
posted 5 years agoSorry to hear that. In this case I recommend using Foxy Gestures https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/foxy-gestures/ - Rated 1 out of 5by Findhead, 5 years ago3.0 это ужас, настройки слетели, жесты не срабатывают, это фиаско. Не думал, что придётся переходить на другое дополнение, но пришлось.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoHi. This is a bug and was not planned. There are already several issues about it: https://github.com/Robbendebiene/Gesturefy/issues/480 - Rated 1 out of 5by Squibfish, 5 years ago3.0 lost all my gestures. That wasn't too difficult to deal with however it seems much worse at recognising gestures than the previous version. It now takes me several attempts for simple gestures to be registered. Sadly will have to switch to a competitor
Developer response
posted 5 years agoHi. I'm sorry to hear that. It should actually work quite well.
If you are not satisfied, you can also use an earlier version of Gesturefy.
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/gesturefy/versions/ Developer response
posted 5 years agoHi. We're really sorry about that.
Can you please open an issue on https://github.com/Robbendebiene/Gesturefy/issues
or if it's similar to this (https://github.com/Robbendebiene/Gesturefy/issues/472), describe your problem there.- Rated 1 out of 5by Chase, 5 years agoLost all my gestures suddenly with an update and back-ups won't restore. Also am unable to set up new gestures now (right-clicking in the Add New Gesture area doesn't record a gesture). Neat.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoHi. We're really sorry about that.
Can you please open an issue on https://github.com/Robbendebiene/Gesturefy/issues
or if it's similar to this (https://github.com/Robbendebiene/Gesturefy/issues/472), describe your problem there. - Rated 1 out of 5by Badgeguy, 5 years agoNo Warning! Lost All Of My Gestures! The upgrade to 3.0 wiped out all of my settings and configuration. Not even a courtesy backup in a file somewhere. Now Gesturefy will do NOTHING until I spend the time trying to rebuild what I had created over the last couple of years from memory. Thanks for destroying my work.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoHi.
We're really sorry about that.
3.0 offers a completely new way of making gestures, and we can never rule out the possibility of mistakes, but we did a lot of testing in advance to rule out most of them. We never had the case that the settings got lost.
Please understand that we are humans and have been developing this addon in our spare time for "the last couple of years". - Rated 1 out of 5by WCHY, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15696426, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15647270, 5 years agoSimply does not work under debian, reading the feature list this extension is severely limited compared to previous mouse gestures extensions.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoYou have a choice of over 60 commands. Some "old" commands from previous add-ons do not work due to API restrictions.
And please open an issue about your Debian problem here: https://github.com/Robbendebiene/Gesturefy/issues - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14650981, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15207424, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14141768, 6 years ago安装这个插件的主要目的,也是唯一目的 右击关闭当前标签页.在插件设置中,已经设置了.但是毫无用处.包括左击 也设置为了关闭当前标签页 都不行.所以,只给一颗星.
另外再说一下我的版本 68.0b9 (64 位)
2019-07-05:
手势没有问题, 只是 鼠标右键 关闭当前标签 这个功能无效Developer response
posted 6 years agoEdit 2019-07-05:
Then please create an issue here to help you and to understand you better: https://github.com/Robbendebiene/Gesturefy/issues/new . But please in English. Please add your settings (backup file) and maybe a picture or video.
You can change every gesture on your own!
你可以自己改变每一个手势. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15083110, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14392738, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14356130, 6 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12565558, 7 years ago
Developer response
posted 7 years agoBut all permissions are descripted in the description. But I can understand your point. This will be improved with the next major release of Gesturefy. Look here: https://github.com/Robbendebiene/Gesturefy/milestone/3- Rated 1 out of 5by Samsung, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13728186, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13446557, 7 years agoAll pain and no gain. Literally days of grief from this Gesturfy disabling all my Right Click functions on everything. Days of trawling the web searching
Windows help, Dell help pages, web searches. I wasted hours pursuing the wrong possible/probable cause thinking it was my concurrent Windows 10 Fall Creators update which many people said had disabled their right so very unimpressed. Thanks but no thanks and never again.
MisshellDeveloper response
posted 7 years agoI'm sorry to hear that and I can understand your frustration but with "on everything" do you mean outside of the browser? Then it's not up to Gesturefy. Gesturefy works only within the browser and uses its functions. Otherwise, I can't explain it to me. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13642927, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13333632, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13476357, 7 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by olds97_lss, 7 years agoWorks fine, but causes SnapLinksPlus to not work https://github.com/cpriest/SnapLinksPlus
Found that FoxyGestures seems to work with SLP.