rotemdan / nanogestures

A minimalistic mouse gesture WebExtension.

Nano Gestures

This is a minimalistic mouse gesture WebExtension supporting four basic gestures:

1. Hold right mouse button + drag left
2. Hold right mouse button + drag right
3. Hold right mouse button + drag up
4. Hold right mouse button + drag down

The gestures can also be modified by the ctrl key, yielding a maximum of 8 distinct possible assignable actions.

Gesture assignment is fully configurable. The following actions are currently supported:

1. Navigate back
2. Navigate forward
3. Create a new tab
4. Reload current page
5. Close current tab
6. Switch to left tab
7. Switch to left tab (skip special pages)
8. Switch to right tab
9. Switch to right tab (skip special pages)
10. Restore last closed tab

Installation

• Chrome: Chrome Web Store.
• Firefox (58+): Mozilla add-on Repository.

nanogestures's Issues

Right mouse context menu not working

Hey @rotemdan thanks so much for your extension!

Tried it on Fedora 28 with GNOME 3.28 and Chrome 65.

However, my right mouse context menu is no longer functional.

It's not opening. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Investigate option to either disable, or reassign ctrl + mousewheel combination to navigate between tabs

The default behavior of this combination is to zoom the current page in or out. However that doesn't seem to work well with using ctrl as a "tab scope" mode modifier. Investigate if it is possible to disable the zooming behavior or allow it to be used to navigate between tabs instead.

(However a disadvantage of this is that pages not covered by the content script would fall back to the default zooming behavior, creating an unwanted effect).

Small error in the addons.mozilla.org descritpion

On AMO, an action list item is missing:

1. Navigate back
2. Navigate forward
3. Create a new tab
4. Reload current page
5. Close current tab
7. Switch to left tab
8. Switch to left tab (skip special pages)
9. Switch to right tab
10. Switch to right tab (skip special pages)
11. Restore last closed tab

Content script not always properly installed on some tabs immediately when the browser starts

Need to investigate this further.

Add option to cancel gesture after some timeout

If the right mouse button is held long enough, cancel the gesture (this would probably be off by default).

Improve options UI

• Use icons instead of text for 'RMouse' and 'Ctrl'
• Gray out disabled options
• Tooltips wherever possible
• Button to reset to defaults

Show trail when gesture is intercepted

Hi,

I like your extension so far: simple and effective, thank you!

It could nice to add a visual clue when the extension is tracking pixels (something like an old extension did).

Opinions?

Linux(/macOS?): pressed ctrl key not recognized if keydown event occured outside of the extension context

In Windows it is not an issue as a continuously pressed key will generate a stream of keydown events (several times per second), so when the tab gains focus the pressed key is immediately identified. This doesn't seem to occur on Linux (Mac?).

In non-windows systems currently the script stores the state of the ctrl key globally (in the background script), however that's only helpful for the scope of the tabs where the content scripts runs.

It is possible there's no good solution.

Discuss about replacing OpenTab by CloseTab

I usually don’t need a mouse gesture for opening a tab, because I have to reach for the keyboard to type the search/URL anyway.

What do you think about replacing it by closing the tab?

Gesture detection conflicts with "Zoom Page WE" extension shortcut causing mouse wheel lock to page zooming after gesture

"Zoom Page WE" extension has the following option enabled by default:

• Enable mouse Right+Wheel to zoom in/out

Due to the way this extension works, it suppresses some mouse events after the right mouse key has triggered a gesture. This causes the shortcut not work properly and to 'lock' to zooming in and out after a gesture was recognized, until the mouse right button is clicked again.

Users of both extensions: It is recommended to disable the above shortcut in "Zoom Page WE"'s options interface.

Firefox (Win10 125% zoom) options UI selection boxes appear abnormally large

Might be a Firefox issue as it doesn't seem to happen on Firefox for Linux or in Chrome.

Feature request scroll to top/bottom?

@rotemdan this would be very handy!

Could it be added to the extension? :-)

Investigate Linux/macOS support on Chrome

Currently only Windows is supported on Chrome.

Consider tabs containing PDFs as special pages

Apparently in both Firefox and Chrome the native PDF viewer doesn't support content scripts.

Recognize 'addons.mozilla.org' and 'chrome.google.com/webstore/' as special pages in Firefox and Chrome respectively