mozilla / prospector

INACTIVE - A series of experiments from Mozilla Labs focused on analyzing, experimenting and prototyping improvements on how you search and discover content with Firefox.
https://mozillalabs.com/prospector/
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Mac OS X: Homedash gobbles up usual back-forward gestures #654

Closed adsahay closed 10 months ago

adsahay commented 12 years ago

OS: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) Firefox: 13 (beta)

In all browsers (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera) I use on my Mac, three-finger swipe is used to go "back" or "forward" in page navigation. However, with Homedash, the three-finger swipe cycles through open tabs, in a same way as two-finger rotate gesture does.

This means I have two gestures: three-finger swipe and two finger rotate that do the same thing, but I've not figured a way to go back-forward using intuitive gestures.

In order that Homedash be consistent with original Firefox (and all other browser) behaviour, I'd suggest the three-finger swipe retain the back/forward navigation, while two-finger rotate remains what it is. Since swipe is easier than rotate, two-finger swipe could be used for cycling through tabs. The two-finger swipe right now does nothing.