# Foxy Gestures

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

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/foxy-gestures](https://chrome-stats.com/d/foxy-gestures)

## Overview

- **ID:** `foxy-gestures`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** liebs
- **Category:** appearance,other
- **Daily users:** 17,100
- **Weekly downloads:** 169
- **Rating:** 4.22 / 5 (508 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.2.12
- **Last updated:** 2021-10-18
- **First published:** 2017-04-07
- **Size:** 966 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/foxy-gestures/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/marklieberman/foxygestures](https://github.com/marklieberman/foxygestures)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #560 — Overall
- #13 — Other extensions
- #36 — Appearance
- #1 — rest
- #4 — mouse
- #6 — best

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `browserSettings`
- `cookies`
- `contextualIdentities`
- `sessions`
- `storage`
- `tabs`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Very low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has medium user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

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.

### Cons

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

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