Eight Mouse Gestures Firefox

Eight Mouse Gestures

Ease your web surfing! Just by straight mouse gestures, you can open recently closed tab, open a link in a new tab (new window or private window), go back and forth in history, scroll to the top or bottom of a page, close a tab and reload a page.

Features & Capabilities

Eight Mouse Gestures will increase your productivity, by saving you time and effort. In half a second, by an unique tiny move, you will go back to the previous page, open links in new tabs, jump to the top of a page or even bring back closed tabs.

You want to surf efficiently, right now, with no efforts? Eight Mouse Gestures was made for you. No need to learn complicated gestures. No need to draw some pentagon just to reload a page. No need to dig into a bunch of options for hours (in fact there is no options at all!). Eight Mouse Gestures was thought to be ready-to-use, straightforward, fast and yet powerful.

How does it work ?

To use this mouse gesture add-on, hold the right-mouse button (hold the right click), move in one direction and then release the right mouse button. You can use diagonal directions. Hence, you have eight different features for the eight different direction : this gives you Eight Mouse Gestures (smart, right?). If you do the gesture on a link, you have some different features.

Here, a list of the features, for the all the different directions, depending if you started to hold the right button on a link or not.

  • If you do NOT start to hold the right-button on a link
    • West (Left) : Go back in history
    • East (Right) : Go forward in history
    • North (Up) : Open a new empty tab
    • South (Down) : Close the current tab
    • NW (North West, diagonal Up-Left) : Scroll to the top of the page
    • SW (South West, diagonal Down-Left) : Scroll to the bottom of the page
    • NE (North East, diagonal Up-Right) : Reload the page
    • SE (South East, diagonal Down-Right) : Open lastly closed tab
  • If you DO start to hold the right-button on a link
    • West (Left) : Go back in history (The same as if there was no link)
    • East (Right) : Go forward in history (The same as if there was no link)
    • North (Up) : Open link in a new active tab
    • South (Down) : Open link in a new windows
    • NW (North West, diagonal Up-Left) : Scroll to the top of the page (The same as if there was no link)
    • SW (South West, diagonal Down-Left) : Scroll to the bottom of the page (The same as if there was no link)
    • NE (North East, diagonal Up-Right) : Open link in a new background tab (it means that the link loads in a new tab while you keep staying on your current tab)
    • SE (South East, diagonal Down-Right) : Open link in a new private windows

User Growth & Download Statistics

Manifest V2 Add-on
By:
Marc Bourrez
Daily users:
20
Rating:
4.43
(7)
Version:
1.0.3resigned1 Last updated: 2024-04-26
Version code:
5732353
Creation date:
2018-11-28
Risk:
High risk impact Low risk likelihood
Permissions:
Content scripts matches:
  • <all_urls>
Size:
15.78KB
URLs:
Website
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Firefox Add-ons Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-03
Compare stats and ranking:

Other platforms

Chrome
Eight Mouse Gestures (v1.0.1)
40 3.00 (4)

Contact the developer

Chrome-Stats does not own this Firefox add-on. Please use these information below to contact the Firefox add-on developer.
Developed by:
Marc Bourrez
Firefox Add-ons Store
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/eight-mouse-gestures/
Website:
https://framagit.org/BourMarc/mouse-shortcurts-for-firefox

User Reviews

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Is Eight Mouse Gestures Safe?

Risk impact
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Eight Mouse Gestures requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details
  • Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Eight Mouse Gestures has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details
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