Windrose Gestures

Windrose Gestures

Mouse gestures for your browser: A lightweight and privacy-aware extension!

What is Windrose Gestures?
Windrose Gestures is a productivity extension that allows you to trigger commonly used browser actions with simple gestures. It reduces wrist movements, is lightweight, respects your privacy, and does not track you. With Windrose, you can hold down the right mouse button and move the mouse in specific directions to perform actions such as refreshing the current tab. It also includes browser history navigation. Install and enjoy a more efficient browsing experience!
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By: hallo.awe
Users: 122 ▲ 6
Rating: 4.00 (4)
Version: 1.4.4 (Last updated: 2021-10-13)
Creation date: 2020-11-25
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • sessions
Size: 45.07K
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Summary

Windrose is a productivity extension that allows you to trigger the most commonly used browser actions with simple gestures.

For example: You can hold down the right mouse button and move the mouse in the northeast direction to refresh the current tab.

Windrose reduces wrist movements by up to 80% (doctors hate it!). It's also lightweight, respects your privacy and does not track you.

Also note that you need to refresh all open tabs after installing the extension and that extensions do not work on Chrome's store and settings pages.

Permission transparency: "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit" This is necessary because the extension works in the background on all pages. Of course, it doesn’t actually read or change your data.

Update v1.4.4: Minor improvements

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User reviews
I must be blind but couldn't find a way to customise it.
by Bruce Z. Bruce Z., 2024-04-19

It's so simple, I love it.
by Krystian G Krystian G, 2024-02-06

Great, simple mouse gestures extension.
by Kurt Dumke Kurt Dumke, 2021-03-29
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Safety
Risk impact

Windrose Gestures is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

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

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