Basic Gestures

Basic mouse gestures for back/forward, new/close tab and scroll to top/bottom.

What is Basic Gestures?

"Basic Gestures" is a Chrome extension designed to enhance productivity while browsing. It enables users to navigate the browser using simple mouse gestures. Holding the right mouse button while guiding the mouse in a direction can command tasks such as going back/forward, opening/closing a tab, or scrolling to the top/bottom of a page. It also offers customizability, allowing users to modify preferences for certain gestures. The extension has recently upgraded to Manifest V3 and added new gestures.

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.41 (17)

Version: 1.4 (Last updated: 2022-08-19)

Creation date: 2016-11-08

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

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Size: 14.06K

Email: Do*****@gmx.net

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 24041 ▼ 264

Other rankings

#1976 in Accessibility ▲ 1 #165 in mouse keyword 78 ▼ 2 #258 in close keyword 16 ▲ 1 #296 in scroll keyword 19 ▼ 1

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Basic Gestures (v1.4)

3.60 (16) 4,364+

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Summary

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This simple extension adds basic mouse gestures for back/forward, new/close tab and scroll to top/bottom.

Hold down right mouse button, move mouse and then release button to execute one of the following commands.

Left => Back Right => Forward Up => Scroll to top or Open new tab (can be changed in the preferences) Down => Scroll to bottom Down + Right => Close current tab Right + Down => Close current tab

Linux and Mac users: Press right mouse button twice to open context menu.

New in version 1.4:

User reviews

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Pros

Simple and easy to use
No unnecessary permissions or data collection
Works as stated

Cons

Limited customization options for gestures
Some users reported it not working in certain situations

Most mentioned

Works as stated
No unnecessary permissions or data collection
Limited customization options for gestures

Recent reviews

Gesture detection is really very basic, and only accounts for where the mouse pointer is when the right mouse button is released vs where it was when it was pressed, not for actual movement in between. (i.e. if you do any crazy movement and end up 100 px right and 100 px down from where you started, it will register as a Close current tab gesture) Otherwise works fine.