Mouse Commander

An extension to map mouse button events to common browser actions.

Important: This extension requires installation of a client application for listening mouse button events and messaging them to the extension by using Native Messaging Firefox Extension API. Non-native mouse listener add-ons do not work on sites that are not fully loaded, sites that are privileged (e.g. about:newtab) and are unable to catch mouse events outside of displayed web page (i.e. not working on top of browser UI). With native client, it's possible to use mouse actions everywhere without these limiting factors.

See releases for installing a client application for your OS.

Features Fully customizable mouse button event mapping with lot of common browser actions, see below.

Trigger a browser action on a mouse button event or with a sequence of mouse button events.

For example, it's possible to switch between tabs with mouse wheel (Rocker gesture):

• Secondary Button Down + Wheel Up -> Switch to next tab
• Secondary Button Down + Wheel Down -> Switch to previous tab

Supported mouse button events

• Button Down
• Button Up
• Button Long Press
• Wheel Up
• Wheel Down

Supported mouse buttons

• Primary mouse button
• Secondary mouse button
• Middle mouse button

Supported browser actions

• Switch to next tab
• Switch to previous tab
• Restore last active tab
• Close tab
• Close other tabs
• Close tabs on left
• Close tabs on right
• Toggle tab pinning
• Duplicate tab
• Reload page
• Back in history
• Forward in history
• Move tab to new window
• Restore closed tab
• Create new tab
• Increase page zoom
• Decrease page zoom
• Reset page zoom
• Scroll top
• Scroll bottom
• Highlight selected text
• Toggle page bookmark
• Toggle reader mode