Simple Gesture for Android v3.16.1
✨Feature
- Adds one-finger gestures for Android.
📨Latest News
- ✨New: This may now work on windows tablet.
✨New: Show toast when open link in background.
⚠️Note
- This is an add-on for Android.
You can install this on Windows tablets, but I have not tested it on Windows or other operating systems. - Addons cannot work in https://*.mozilla.org etc.
- Tab gestures don't work because Firefox's API has many issues.
👆The default gestures
(D=Down, U=Up, R=Right, L=Left)
- D-L: Forward
- D-R: Back
- D-R-U: Refresh
- R-D: Scroll to the top
- R-U: Scroll to the bottom
- L-D-R: Close tab
- L-D-R-U-R: Open settings pages
🔧Examples of custom gesture
- https://github.com/utubo/firefox-simple_gesture/wiki/Custom-gesture-examples
💡Tips
- If this does not work on some AMP pages, install Redirect AMP to HTML to solve the problem. (issue #66)
- Firefox for Android does not have about:home 😢.
https://github.com/utubo/firefox-simple_gesture/issues/21 - Other tips
https://github.com/utubo/firefox-simple_gesture/wiki/Tips
🔐Permissions
- Get data from the clipboard -> for custom gestues
- Access recently closed tabs -> for to restore closed tabs
- Access browser tabs -> for gestures to control tabs
- Access your data for all websites -> for to work on any websites
🐞Known Issues
- This doesn't work on <frame> tags.
- If you try to open a new tab in private-mode, that link will be stored in the browser's history. (Firefox has a bug) [#85]
- GitHub Issues
🏚️ For old firefox
- If the gestures do not work when scrolling or zooming in on a page,
open "about:config" in Firefox and set "dom.visualviewport.enabled" to "ture". - For version 56
The last supported version is
https://addons.mozilla.org/android/downloads/file/3966890/simple_gesture-2.24.xpi
In this version, you can jump to the setting page by accessing https://example.com/simple-gesture/setting/ .
🎂Thx
- takachan(This add-on respects "Quick Gestures" add-on.)
- CennoxX(German translation)
- OhSoGood(Double-tap idea)
- xiaoyuhaoge, Dynamith(Hint for Restore Closd Tab)
💌p.s
- Thanks for the review !⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐