Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 30th Jan 2008 09:49 UTC
"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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2005-07-08
Keyboard shortcuts, or just clicking (and programming if necessary) extra mouse or keyboard buttons is much easier (for example, to browse web pages). It could also be healthier for your wrists.
People are having lots of wrist problems because of unergonomic mouses and just because of the need to move the mouse all the time when using computers, often for hours without many breaks. I'm a bit worried that mouse gestures won't ease that sort of problems.
As to ergonomy, I hope that good ergonomic mouses like this would become more common: http://www.evoluent.com/vm3.html
But I guess people just have difficulties changing old habits?
Edited 2008-01-30 18:06 UTC