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Reviews for Simple Gesture for Android

Simple Gesture for Android by utubo

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118 reviews
  • by Firefox user 15785508, 5 years ago
  • by sl, 5 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14386455, 5 years ago
  • by Usmanov, 5 years ago
  • by Simon Carter, 5 years ago
    Indispensable. I love being able to use gestures to switch and close tabs on mobile and hate using other browsers now!
  • by Petr, 5 years ago
    Please add duplicate current tab.
    Edit: nice, this script works.
    Edit2: unfortunately the add-on doesn't work on my Windows tablet.

    Developer response

    posted 5 years ago
    Sorry for my late reply.
    You can use this script.
    -------------------------------------------------
    /**
    * @name Duplicate current tab
    */
    SimpleGesture.open(location.href);
    -------------------------------------------------
    (Webextentions can not duplicate the history.)

    thx.

    Edit2:
    Sorry, I didn't get a notification of the edit, so I missed it.
    I will investigate when I get a chance to get Windows.
    Sorry...
  • by Firefox user 15739538, 5 years ago
    Great add-on! Though U-R and U-L for next and previous tabs look more intuitive for me.
  • by Firefox user 15686431, 5 years ago
    Давно искал. Спасибо за труды!
  • by Firefox user 12628184, 5 years ago
  • by mamo3gr, 5 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14706772, 5 years ago
  • by Breadmann, 5 years ago
    Fantastic add on. Excellent work. I was wondering about a few additions. Is there any way to add in a function for pasting text directly into the URL bar? I was trying to see if I could do a custom gesture with JavaScript but I'm not very good with JS, sorry.

    Edit 11/27 Sending my thanks for the speedy update. I have been using it once you first released it and it works very well. All the best,

    Developer response

    posted 5 years ago
    Sorry, version 2.21 could not read clipboard.
    So, I fixed it at version 2.22,
    and you can use this script to paste and go.
    -----------------------------------------------------------
    /**
    * @name Paste and Go
    */
    navigator.clipboard.readText().then(text => {
    if (text.startsWith("http://") || text.startsWith("https://")) {
    SimpleGesture.open(text);
    } else {
    SimpleGesture.open('https://www.google.com/search?q=' + encodeURIComponent(text));
    }
    });
    -----------------------------------------------------------
    Thank you for your review.
    Fix 12/04
    if (text.startsWith("^http://") || text.startsWith("^https://")) {
    to
    if (text.startsWith("http://") || text.startsWith("https://")) {
  • by Firefox user 12593937, 5 years ago
    Hope to see this addon back on firefox android soon.
  • by Firefox user 15314091, 5 years ago
    This is a great AddOn for FF on Android - finally it's possible to use Firefox almost as fast as on desktop. Thank you so much!
    Two suggestions though:
    Can you implement the possibility to block gestures on certain pages in the future? I know I can enable/disable it manually. But I use e.g. https://www.qwant.com/maps/ in the browser quite often, and of course it would be best to disable SG automatically on such pages, where you e.g. push a map around.
    Another question: I use 'new tab' gesture very often and it really bugs me that I afterwards have to click once more on top into the address bar to start typing or to even see the default suggestions of firefox. Would it be possible to automatically focus the address bar?
    Thanks a lot!

    Developer response

    posted 5 years ago
    >Can you implement the possibility to block gestures on certain pages in the future?
    Ok, I add blacklist in v2.19
    (I will improve the input form.)

    >Would it be possible to automatically focus the address bar?
    Sorry, it is impossible.

    Thank you for your review.
  • by Luzen, 6 years ago
    Doesn't suppress context menu on Linux.

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Sorrry, this add-on is for Android.
    Webextensions can't suppress context menu.
  • by 神末SESM, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14407045, 6 years ago
    Wow, so powerful! Such a good Firefox Android navigation experience.
  • by Carlos Andres Corzo Peñaloza, 6 years ago
    Works perfectly. Easy to set up and customize.
  • by Firefox user 12932343, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 13108631, 6 years ago
    That's just great!!!!!! A must have. Thx a lot for great idea and its execution

    Best productive add-on for Firefox!
  • by xin, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14609548, 6 years ago
    Fantastic addon! Makes Firefox much nicer to use on a big phone. The ability to customize the gestures is great, too.
  • by Vedun, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14538272, 6 years ago
    pls add (close next tab) and (close privous tab) in simple gesture
    tanx ❤
  • by Firefox user 14524259, 6 years ago
    hi my friend
    you can add 'colse special tab'
    and user add special url to close
    tanx for lovely add on
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    can you add "close next tab " and "close privous tab" ??
    and i don't understand ( p.s.
    I planning wrap "browser.tabs.query({});" by "SimpleGesture.getTabs();" )
    tanx my friend

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Sorry, that has two probrems.
    ･Webextensions doesn't work special tab. so, you must open "about:tabs" manually for select other tab. (and, you can close special tab in "about:tabs" manually.)
    ･Webextensions API sometimes returns "about:blank" instead of actual URL.
    thx.

    p.s.
    I planning wrap "browser.tabs.query({});" by "SimpleGesture.getTabs();"