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Jon S. von Tetzchner

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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Fluchtkapsel

@jon @Vivaldi 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.

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Jon S. von Tetzchner

@fluchtkapsel @Vivaldi

Those kind of gestures tend to be more system related. Please file a bug and we will look into it.

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Harald Leithner

@jon @Vivaldi mouse gestures are the main reason I use #vivaldi thanks for this amazing feature.

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Dan Silov

@jon @Vivaldi I used Mouse Gestures in Opera for years, and I couldn’t make any other browser my primary one without them. Was delighted to find out that Vivaldi has them, and by default they are the same as in Opera! Great work, thank you!

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Michael B.

@jon There's one inconsistency: you can't use the 'back'-gesture in speed dial subfolders. Drives me nuts every day.

I remember the day I showed a colleague some infos on my screen ~15 years ago and naturally used gesture navigation. This guy was an incredible fast mouse clicker, but when he watched me miraculously going back and forth he was shocked.

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Jon S. von Tetzchner

@mbletmathe

Yes, mouse gestures can look like magic at times. 😀

With regards to the subfolders, there are good reasons for that, but will chat with the team about it. Cannot promise anything soon, but at least bringing it up.

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LarsNygard

@jon @Vivaldi

Oh my, what a flashback. I remember a time when webpages navigated like magic. Everything was blazing fast, and I even had my email in Opera.

Where did this past without bloat go? What happened to us? Maybe it's Vivaldi time to do something about it again...

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Jon S. von Tetzchner

@Lach @Vivaldi

We have done a thing or two. Email is there in Vivaldi and the shortcuts we have put in place make things faster, whether it is mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, quick command and command chains or something else that helps you move faster on the Web.

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Mark A. ⏏️ {FalconMarkSix}

@jon @Vivaldi I customize it so that drawing a box reopens a tab :ablobfoxbongo:

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RedSnt

@jon @Vivaldi 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.

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