Nathan Havemann has a favorite Firefox add-on. What’s yours?

Been watching for awhile now, and I would like to recommend a handy little app provided by Firefox Add-ons.

This nifty little Firefox add-on is called “mouse gestures“. It’s an add-on that I can’t live without, and it has simplified my life on the web tremendously. That being said, you may have heard about it, may be using it, or you might despise it (or you might not even be using Firefox), but never the less, some of your viewers might find it helpful. How it works is you input commands into your Firefox browser through simple mouse gestures.

For example, if one were to open a new tab, all one would need to do is hold in the right mouse button(the right mouse button must be held down when making a gesture simply to avoid accidental gestures), then quickly swipe the mouse upwards, inserting a command, and a new tab will open for you. At first it seems tedious and slow, but after a few minutes of use it becomes a fast way to input browser commands (its function is similar to hot keys, but in my experience at least, it has proven to be slightly more efficient).

Some additional gestures include right clicking a link, flicking the mouse upwards, causing that link to open for you in a new tab. Also, one could either swipe the mouse to the left or the right when holding in the right mouse button to either browse a page left or right respectively. The gestures listed previously is just a small sampling of the gestures which are available, listed simply due to their “most commonly used” status.

I encourage that you try it out and see for yourself what a great timesaver it is (even though you use hot keys), if that is not the case I am sure someone out there who do not use hot keys would find it useful.