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How to Optimize Gestures in Firefox

Published on 2005/7/29 in General, Link, Linux, etc. and Tabletries. 0 Comments

Why Bother?

It is nice to be able to flick your wrist to do all the common tasks in a browser without touching menus, reaching for toolbars, or the keyboard. Personally, I’ve got a tablet so the pen is often the most convenient interface. Back, Forward, Next (in series), Previous (in series), new tab, close tab, minimize and maximize all in two mouse moves or less.

I used to use “All-In-One Gestures”:http://perso.wanadoo.fr/marc.boullet/index.html which is a fork of the “Optimoz Mouse Gestures” extension. It was forked before reliable diagonal gestures were implemented though and it has stayed san diagonals for years. Optimoz was broken in Firefox for a time with no maintainers so I had to move to All-in-One, I got used to a few of the bit features and didn’t check back on Optimoz.

I sorely missed diagonal gestures, instead of 4 gestures with one move (Up, Down, Left, Right) I could do eight!, but I tolerated AIO. Two gestures which were especially handy as one move-gestures but don’t fit into the UDLR orientations were Grow Image and Shrink Image. Did I mention the loss was a tad annoying?

A new extension has come about though which adds two more amazingly useful one move gestures into the mixin’s though–”NextPlease”:https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=390 . This extension adds interfaces for Next and Previous page, filling out and in my opinion, fully justifying the diagonals as legit gestures, if there was any question. All-In-One supports these gestures but only for the non-diagonal gestures–Up (Link-in-new-tab), Down (Link-in-new-window or Scroll Down) , Left (back), Right (forward) are already taken with important moves. No flick to next page for you there.

So, how can you flick to the next page?

  2. Install the “Optimoz Mouse Gestures extension”:http://optimoz.mozdev.org/gestures/installation.html
  3. After you restart firefox, click the links below to add the NextPlease gestures to Optimoz:

The other two classic diagonals are all enabled by default–Grow Image is Down and Right, Shrink Image is Up and Left.

Kirinyaga, Kenya, Google Earth, Milky Way Galaxy

Published on 2005/6/29 in General, Life, Tabletries and Travel. 1 Comment

I’ve been plugging away with my tablet at Google’s new app. They’ve closed downloads to prevent a server overload (understandable on a mostly server-based, heavy data app) so I’ll mirror the Windows only (as yet) installer I downloaded when I remember.


First we flew half way around the earth

Our Route

No content with a simple route I realized I could get GPS coordinates and elevations for all of the points we stopped on Mt. Kenya.

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Point Lenana at 16355ft, Mackinder’s Camp at about 14300, and so forth.

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Does this look a little familiar? Definitely not perfect but the EarthSat did a pretty decent job with the topography (that is what they used?).

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