"My first brush with mouse gestures on the Opera browser was an accident, but the ability to quickly move backward or forward in the browser history, open new windows, close tabs, and more without using the menus or moving the mouse toward the navigation toolbar won me over immediately. Nowadays, this feature is available in Firefox and Konqueror too, and you can even configure mouse gestures for GNOME and KDE desktop environments." More here.
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I never really saw the point of mouse gestures. The whole point for me is to minimize the use of the mouse as much as possible, not use it for more and more things. Generally keyboard shortcuts are faster anyway, and I have an easier time remembering them (they're also much more standard across applications).
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I never really saw the point of mouse gestures. The whole point for me is to minimize the use of the mouse as much as possible, not use it for more and more things. Generally keyboard shortcuts are faster anyway, and I have an easier time remembering them (they're also much more standard across applications).