Mouse Gesture Events

Name: Mouse Gesture Events
Rating: 4.04089219330855 (269 reviews)
Author: Simpler

Control your browser faster and easier with gestures using mouse movement.

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Mouse Gesture Events is a lightweight Chrome extension designed to speed up your browsing experience through intuitive mouse gestures. Hold down the right mouse button and move your mouse in specific directions to perform quick browser actions like opening a new tab, closing tabs, switching tabs, refreshing pages, and navigating browser history. With diagonal movement support and handy actions such as pinning tabs, minimizing windows, and duplicating tabs, it covers the most essential commands efficiently.

This free and ad-free extension is only 29 kB, ensuring optimal performance without ads, analytics, or malware. It is compatible with Linux and Mac users who can use double right-clicks to open context menus. Note that, due to browser security policies, it cannot operate on internal Chrome pages or the Chrome Web Store. Mouse Gesture Events provides a clean, effective way to control your browser faster and with ease.

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By:

Simpler

Users:

90,000+

Rating:

4.04

(269)

Version:

3.0.2 Last updated: 2024-02-15

Creation date:

2019-03-26

Risk:

Permissions:

sessions
storage
scripting

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size:

30.59K

Email:

ib*****@gmail.com

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 2,575 ▼ 16

Other rankings

#380 in Accessibility #2 in mouse keyword 41 #15 in event keyword 22 #150 in right click keyword 59 ▲ 1

Other platforms

Mouse Gesture Events (v2.9resigned1)

5,284+ 3.98

(194)

User reviews

Users praise Mouse Gesture Events for its simplicity, speed, and effective basic gestures, making it a useful lightweight extension. However, many users find its lack of customization and limited gesture options frustrating, as well as interference with right-click menus and site-specific input. Desired features include the ability to create custom gestures, temporarily disable the extension on certain sites, and add more gesture actions to improve usability.

Pros

Lightweight and simple to use, with a minimalist design appreciated by users.
Provides intuitive and effective mouse gestures, including diagonal recognition.
Works well on Chrome internal pages (chrome://) and is fast and reliable.
Allows basic browser navigation via gestures (e.g., forward/back, new tab).
No data upload or privacy concerns, maintaining user trust.

Cons

Lacks customization options; users cannot create or assign their own gestures, limiting flexibility.
Gestures sometimes interfere with standard browser functions, such as right-click context menus, causing inconvenience.
Limited range of actions available; missing features like open link in new tab or advanced gesture combinations.
No easy way to temporarily disable the extension on specific websites, which can conflict with site-specific gestures.
Issues on some websites where gestures misinterpret navigation controls (e.g., pagination links).

Recent reviews

垃圾软件，使用手势时完全没有反应

央未, 2025-05-15

love it! so handy and works really well

Natalie Perl, 2025-05-15

아니... 우클릭이 한번에 안되잖아요. 더블클릭을 해야 우클릭 메뉴 창이 나오던데.. 흠... 이걸 써야 하나 말아야 하나.

Juhnny B, 2025-04-19

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Mouse Gesture Events requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood

Mouse Gesture Events has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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