Mouse Gestures
One the many popular features in Vivaldi is mouse gestures. Have you tried them?
You need to enable mouse gestures in settings. They work using the mouse and through another setting, you make them work on the trackpad as well (using ALT).
Our goal is to adapt to your needs as a user of Vivaldi and this is part of it.
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@jon@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net
Mouse gestures and foremost MDI / "Tabs" were featured even in the early Operas weren't they.
Whether it was the early Opera browsers or the Opera for JRE mobiles, cellphones, there sure were some good stuff back then, pioneering, I'd say
Indeed. I implemented MDI tabs in Opera 1.0 30 years ago. Mouse gestures were added years later.
Mouse gestures in Vivaldi are a lot more powerful, though. You can easily make your own and have them to just about anything.
@jon@vivaldi.net @preferred@expressional.social @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net IIRC Opera 5 introduced the mouse gestures. Haven't found a good replacement since Opera 12.5 until I started using Vivaldi. WebExtensions can only do so much until they reach the limits of the API.
While we are talking about MDI – MDI in Vivaldi when? 😉
@jon@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net While I love the mouse gestures when using a mouse I couldn't but notice that two finger gestures don't seem to work at least with my Flat oak installed Vivaldi. Am I doing something wrong? I just need the backward and forward navigation.
@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.de @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net
Those kind of gestures tend to be more system related. Please file a bug and we will look into it.
@jon@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net mouse gestures are the main reason I use #vivaldi thanks for this amazing feature.
@jon@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net
I started checking them out the other day, and saw that I can create my own.
I don't recall right now if I can combine it with command chains (I'm not at the computer), but I wouldn't be surprised if it's already possible.
I have terrible memory, though. I need to make a cheatsheet of the gestures so I can get used to them. 😅
@TyrionTargaryen@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net , you can, of course, use command chains. That means you can make custom mouse gestures, that perform custom command chains. Pretty powerful stuff this.
@jon@vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net Mouse gestures is the main reason I use Vivaldi. Having it baked in by default, instead of having to get a wonky extension, that's why I'll not be switching anytime soon. It's only somewhat recently that extensions on firefox has reached the same standard that you guys set back in the presto days.
One gesture, if I could suggest a new default, would be a "(un)mute tab". The one I use currently is right-left, simulating a wagging finger. With multiple windows (one on each monitor) and live streams going that you can't just pause, it's nice to be able to mute a tab without looking by just swiping the mouse.