Firefox Gestures

I was just playing around with some of the Firefox Gestures that are available on a Mac, and went looking for a list of commands that you can have the gestures trigger… since it wasn’t easy to find, here’s the scoop.

First, go to Firefox’s about:config page… enter “about:config” in the location bar:

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Click past the warning, and enter a filter-text of “gesture” to see the various multi-finger gestures and their commands.

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Here are the possible values you can put in the Value, and thus which action you will trigger with the gesture.

  • cmd_copy
  • cmd_cut
  • cmd_paste
  • cmd_selectAll
  • cmd_selectNone
  • cmd_copyLink
  • cmd_copyImageLocation
  • cmd_copyImageContents
  • cmd_scrollTop
  • cmd_scrollBottom
  • cmd_scrollPageUp
  • cmd_scrollPageDown
  • cmd_scrollLineUp
  • cmd_scrollLineDown
  • cmd_scrollLeft
  • cmd_scrollRight
  • cmd_selectCharPrevious
  • cmd_selectCharNext
  • cmd_wordPrevious
  • cmd_wordNext
  • cmd_selectWordPrevious
  • cmd_selectWordNext
  • cmd_beginLine
  • cmd_endLine
  • cmd_selectBeginLine
  • cmd_selectEndLine
  • cmd_selectLinePrevious
  • cmd_selectLineNext
  • cmd_selectPagePrevious
  • cmd_selectPageNext
  • cmd_selectMoveTop
  • cmd_selectMoveBottom
  • cmd_paste
  • cmd_pasteQuote
  • cmd_delete
  • cmd_deleteCharBackward
  • cmd_deleteCharForward
  • cmd_deleteWordBackward
  • cmd_deleteWordForward
  • cmd_deleteToBeginningOfLine
  • cmd_deleteToEndOfLine
  • cmd_delete
  • cmd_deleteCharBackward
  • cmd_deleteCharForward
  • cmd_deleteWordBackward
  • cmd_deleteWordForward
  • cmd_deleteToBeginningOfLine
  • cmd_deleteToEndOfLine
  • cmd_scrollTop
  • cmd_scrollBottom
  • cmd_moveTop
  • cmd_moveBottom
  • cmd_selectTop
  • cmd_selectBottom
  • cmd_lineNext
  • cmd_linePrevious
  • cmd_selectLineNext
  • cmd_selectLinePrevious
  • cmd_charPrevious
  • cmd_charNext
  • cmd_selectCharPrevious
  • cmd_selectCharNext
  • cmd_beginLine
  • cmd_endLine
  • cmd_selectBeginLine
  • cmd_selectEndLine
  • cmd_wordPrevious
  • cmd_wordNext
  • cmd_selectWordPrevious
  • cmd_selectWordNext
  • cmd_scrollPageUp
  • cmd_scrollPageDown
  • cmd_scrollLineUp
  • cmd_scrollLineDown
  • cmd_movePageUp
  • cmd_movePageDown
  • cmd_selectPageUp
  • cmd_selectPageDown

The list is from Mozilla’s Website.

You can also use these commands, which I figured out from trial and error:

  • Browser:Home – takes you to your home page
  • Browser:PrevTab
  • Browser:NextTab
  • Browser:BackOrBackDuplicate – equivalent to back button
  • Browser:ForwardOrForwardDuplicate
  • Browser:Reload

If you make a mistake, you can right-click on the setting and “reset” to the original configuration value.