The Macbook Air and the recent incarnation of the Macbook Pro have some neat multi-touch features built in. You can e.g. navigate forwards and backwards in Safari or the Preview application, zoom in and out in iPhoto or turn images.
Unfortunately, this only works with some Apple applications out-of-the-box. (Preview, Safari, iPhoto, …)
Especially the three fingers swipe to navigate forwards and backwards would be really handy in Firefox. After a short google search, I found this article in the Apple discussion forums, which links to a system enhancement called MultiClutch. With it you can define per application which multi-touch gestures you would like to map to which keyboard shortcuts.
My current mappings:
Firefox
- navigate backwards: Swipe Left => Command+[
- navigate forwards: Swipe Right => Command+]
- close current tab: Zoom Out => Command+W
- open new tab: Zoom In => Command+T
- reload page: Zoom Out, Zoom In => Command+R
AdiumX:
- switch to next chat tab: Swipe Right => Command+Right
- switch to previous chat tab: Swipe Left => Command+Left
Skype:
- switch to next chat tab: Swipe Right => Command+Option+Right
- switch to previous chat tab: Swipe Left => Command+Option+Left
How did you get it to work with Firefox, I’ve had no luck there.
I Dl’ed this a few days ago and it works sometimes and doesnt others. seems when i restart or quit FF it stops working but will randomly turn back on at its own leisure. Any body know of why its doing this. a guy in the forum linked in this article said he’s having the same problem.
thanks
I never had such problems. Did you try Firefox 3?
No im using the current version on the FF download page. I use FF specifically for the plugins and im worried using 3 i would lose most if not all my plugins
Well, the final version of FF3 will be release end of June. At that time most of the plugins will most probably be compatible, so that you can then give it another try. (all my plugins are working great with FF3 RC1)