Fulvio wrote:
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I may not go so far, but I would like to know what is the advantage of having mouse gestures, to someone who has never tried to use them before."
Well, this is a very good and valid question. I myself can't live without mouse guestures and the "rocker guestures" (which means I use Romanito's plugin instead). I could live, yes, but not operate a browser very well. I'm someone with a lot of medical problems. One of them is Multiple Sclerosis, which has affected my body muscles. For most people it is easy to move the mouse up to the back/forward, or even right-click on the page, select, and click again. Yet, with them installed in a browser I hold a button down---and tap another with a finger and I can go forward, or back. Or, like jsnj said, I can close a layer, open one, go to my homepage, or even close the browser if I wish---with very
small movements.
And so when this came to K-meleon (and at the time it was more advanced, and in some cases perhaps still more advanced than Mozilla's Mouse Guestures extension... I don't know) it opened up an entire new world of browsing for me. I don't use other PCs, or servers, but the first thing I do when personally beta-testing a Gecko browser (for mozilla.org) is to see if it'll take a mouse guestures plugin before I go any further. ;o)
Well, I just thought I'd give the viewpoint of someone to whom this is really useful to. Of course people don't have to use them if they don't want to. They can always go and press the "back/forward" buttons or whatever, as they continue to work as always. Maybe a little "Food for Thought" for "mistah-troll".
Amicalement mes amis,
Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge d'Acadie"
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