Mouse Gestures Redox

Open the mouse gestures preferences via Tools ⇒ Add-ons ⇒ Extensions and click the Edit Gestures button. This launches a window where you can easily add, edit or remove all gesture mappings.

These codes are used by Mouse Gestures to represent gestures internally. They look complicated, but keep in mind that you do not have to type them.
The code for regular (drawn) gestures use one letter for each stroke, e.g. UL stands for Up-Left. An asterisk at the beginning of the code indicates "any gesture done over links that ends with..." and is usually used for functions like "Open links in tabs".
Codes beginning with : mark "rocker gestures" which are done with buttons only. The left mouse button is 0, the middle one is 1 and the right one is 2. + and - mean moving the mouse wheel. So :2- means "hold right mouse button, then scroll up with the wheel", and :02 means "hold left button, then click right".

JavaScript is a programming language widely known for its use on web pages. Besides that, it is also used to glue the user interface of Mozilla applications to their back ends, and to create extensions for these applications. To define what happens when the gesture is triggered, just enter a piece of JavaScript into the appropriate input field.
Information on the language syntax itself is available in countless online tutorials (keep in mind, though, that they apply to web pages - on the application level, you deal with other objects and functions even though it is the same language).

You can find more information about scripting your own gesture here.
If you want to know the JavaScript command for a certain browser/application function, try asking in the Mouse Gestures Forum.

You're cancelling the gesture by holding the mouse button down after you stop moving. This allows you to cancel a gesture if you want to. Try letting go of the mouse button before the mouse comes to rest. Alternatively, if the default delay of 500 milliseconds is not enough for you, feel free to increase it via the Mouse Gestures preferences panel.

The numbers represent diagonal movements. You can fine-tune their tolerance in the preferences panel (Preferences | Advanced | Mouse Gestures | Additional settings). The default value of 60 gives equal weight to diagonal and left/right/up/down gestures. Decreasing this value makes L/R/U/D more easily recognized while increasing it makes diagonal gestures more easily recognized. If you set the value to 0 then diagonal gestures will be effectively disabled.

When the left mouse button is used for gestures, you might accidently perform gestures while selecting text. Unfortunately, there's no ultimate solution. However, you can fine-tune your settings in the mouse gestures preferences panel to make text selecting a bit easier. You have three options:
- For the back and forward gestures, you can set a time limit after which the gestures are cancelled automatically, and you can continue to select text.
- Cancel gestures when making a text selection by pausing before releasing the mouse button. The delay is configurable.
- Configure Mouse Gestures to use a mouse button other than the left mouse, or to require a modifier like the control key.

Unfortunately, this is currently not possible. Unless you configure Mouse Gestures to use a mouse button other than the left or to require a modifier like the control key, text selection will occur. However, Mouse Gestures automatically resets the selection to the state before the gesture was started.

Press the mouse button, wait about a second, then start moving the mouse cursor. This will allow you to drag the element instead of doing a gesture. The amount of time is configurable in the mouse gestures preferences panel.

Open the mouse gestures preferences, and tick the checkbox labelled "Middle mouse click loads selected URL". Restart the browser.

We made great efforts to ensure mouse gestures can coexist with the right-click context menu. However, it is still possible that problems occur - especially, but not limited to, when using platforms which are not officially supported. Either way, please subscribe and post to our Forum, so we can work with you finding and hopefully fixing the cause of your problems. Thanks!

Currently, the only supported platforms are Windows and Linux. The extension may run on other platforms. Macintosh, for example, used to be supported, but Mac support was stopped with version 1.5: if it works there, fine - if not, we don't guarantee that we can help you. The reason for this is that Jochen and Jens, the only Mouse Gestures developers, do not have access to a Macintosh computer, and even then would probably not have the time for testing and bugfixing on a third platform. When a Macintosh Firefox extension developer joins, this might change.

You can uninstall Mouse Gestures using the Extension Manager found in Tools ⇒ Add-ons.