# Opera Gestures

> Mouse gestures like Opera 12

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `opera-gestures`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** \_y\_s
- **Category:** appearance,tabs
- **Daily users:** 360
- **Weekly downloads:** 12
- **Rating:** 4.71 / 5 (21 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.7b9
- **Last updated:** 2021-04-18
- **First published:** 2018-06-30
- **Size:** 37 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/opera-gestures/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/ys-j/OperaGestures](https://github.com/ys-j/OperaGestures)

## Description

Opera Gestures brings the classic mouse gestures from Opera 12 to your browser, enhancing navigation efficiency and user experience. This lightweight and simple extension supports link and wheel gestures, allowing users to navigate history, open links in new tabs, refresh pages, manage windows, and more with intuitive mouse movements.

Key features include customizable gesture sensitivity and a blacklist for site exclusions. It is open source, developed primarily for Firefox Quantum (57+), and requires permissions to access website data and manage recently closed tabs for certain functionalities. While it excels in many areas, a few limitations exist, such as restrictions on "about:" pages and some interaction nuances with child frames and touch gestures. Opera Gestures offers a powerful, nostalgic browsing enhancement with modern flexibility.

## Rankings

- #6,074 — Overall
- #63 — rest
- #166 — mouse
- #197 — child

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `sessions`
- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/opera-gestures)