# Touch Navigate

> Adds touch screen gesture navigation. Designed for use with 2-in-1 laptops.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/touch-navigate](https://chrome-stats.com/d/touch-navigate)

## Overview

- **ID:** `touch-navigate`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** ShimmyMySherbet
- **Category:** search-tools
- **Daily users:** 80
- **Weekly downloads:** 5
- **Rating:** 4.50 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.1
- **Last updated:** 2023-05-07
- **First published:** 2023-05-06
- **Size:** 24 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/touch-navigate/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/ShimmyMySherbet/TouchNavigate/issues](https://github.com/ShimmyMySherbet/TouchNavigate/issues)

## Description

Touch Navigate is a specialized Chrome extension designed to improve navigation on 2-in-1 laptops used in tablet mode. It enables intuitive touch screen gesture controls allowing users to swipe from the far left of the screen to navigate backwards and swipe from the far right to move forwards. This natural navigation method replaces traditional keyboard or track-pad inputs, offering a seamless browsing experience tailored for touch screen laptops. Please note, this extension requires a touch screen and does not function with track-pad gestures.

## Rankings

- #12,954 — Overall
- #5 — touch
- #12 — laptop
- #39 — navigation

## Permissions and access

### Content script matches

- `*`

## 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/touch-navigate)