Foxy Gestures

Name: Foxy Gestures
Rating: 4.2205 (508 reviews)
Author: liebs

By: liebs

Mouse gestures for Firefox. A web extension alternative to FireGestures created by a long time FireGestures user.

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Features & Capabilities

Foxy Gestures is a powerful Firefox web extension inspired by FireGestures, providing customizable mouse, wheel, and chord gestures to enhance your browsing experience. It supports gestures using left, middle, or right mouse buttons along with gesture wheel controls and user-defined scripts.

Despite web extension limitations preventing integration with certain Firefox internal pages and features, Foxy Gestures offers configurable timeouts, gesture trails, customizable status text, and optional permissions that activate only when needed. Ideal for users wanting to navigate Firefox efficiently using mouse gestures with a modern, open-source web extension.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

liebs

Daily users:

17,688 145

Rating:

4.22

(508)

Version:

1.2.12 Last updated: 2021-10-18

Version code:

5310748

Creation date:

2017-04-07

Risk:

Permissions:

browserSettings
cookies
contextualIdentities
sessions
storage
tabs

Content scripts matches:

<all_urls>

Size:

966.47KB

Email:

ma*****@liebs.ca

URLs:

Website

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-18

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 542 ▲ 4

Other rankings

#13 in Other extensions

#35 in Appearance

#1 in rest keyword 35

#5 in configure keyword 24

#5 in mouse keyword 62

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Developed by:

liebs

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/foxy-gestures/

Email:

ma*****@liebs.ca

Website:

https://github.com/marklieberman/foxygestures

User Reviews

Overall, the dominant theme is unreliability: multiple reviews report that Foxy Gestures does not work, or fails to perform basic actions like opening menus. A few users express positive sentiment, highlighting its open-source nature and long-standing use. There are mentions of browser compatibility issues (e.g., changes since Firefox 149) and feature requests (e.g., working on non-http pages). A minority have managed to get it to work at times, but repeated failures appear to be common across reviews.

Pros

Cons

Does not work / fails to perform basic actions (reported by multiple reviews)
Unreliable / inconsistent behavior across various commands and updates

Recent reviews

by Fi*****, 2026-04-03

Would it be possible to have this addon working in non-http.s pages, for exemple about:* ?

by xb*****, 2026-03-26

Ever since I updated to Firefox 149, when I use the "Open link in new tab" compound command, the link opens in a new tab as expected, but now a blank new tab also opens at the same time.

by Fi*****, 2026-03-25

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Is Foxy Gestures Safe?

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Foxy 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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Risk likelihood

Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Firefox add-on may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Firefox add-on reputation on Firefox Add-ons Store, the amount of time the Firefox add-on has been around, and other signals about the Firefox add-on. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Firefox add-on.

Foxy Gestures has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

Medium This extension has medium user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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