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Firefox used to have the amazing "Mouse Gestures Suite" add-on, which provides scroll-wheel-in-tabs and rocker navigation. Unfortunately with the new Firefox (since v57) it doesn't work anymore, since it uses the old extension approach.

There seems to be a new add-on for the web extension approach (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxy-gestures...), but I haven't tested it yet and am not sure how robust it is at this point.

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AFAIK there is currently no extension that would support rocker gestures.

Also mouse gestures now have the same annoying "feature" they've always had in Chrome: they don't work in "system" tabs (think about:preferences).

So you can't use mouse gesture to quickly go through opened tabs if at least one of them is the "system" one, the navigation simply dies there.

I've tried out the Foxy Gestures add-on in the meantime. It turns out it has rocker gestures (called 'chord gestures' in the 'Other Gestures' setup tab) and besides the drawback you mentioned (doesn't work in system tabs) it works well so far.

That's great news, thank you.

I don't think they're ever going to fix the "system tabs" issue, since it's supposedly a "feature", but at least some good news. :)

There was a custom xpi of mouse gestures redox that has a few more updates, but it's sadly unmaintained and broken in 57.

I've yet to find a gesture extension that supports the same rocker gestures (i.e. middle click + other click to change tabs).

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