The Firefox web browser has done the best thing by introducing the mouse gesture feature on a large scale!!!
It is not that the Firefox web browsing software application offers new features through the Firefox extension feature and lets the whole thing rest at that. The Firefox web browsing software application has not restricted itself to merely offering new features to the end users through the Firefox extension feature. The Firefox extensions are configurable and can be altered by the end users themselves to suit their web browsing preferences and requirements. This enables the end user to innovate and help in the development of the new innovation.
It would not be incorrect to say that the Firefox web browsing software application, by offering the mouse gesture feature as a Firefox extension, is contributing to the growth and development of the mouse gesture feature as a whole. Any and every development always leads to certain teething troubles. One of the biggest problems faced by the end users of the Firefox web browser after installing the extension that offered the mouse gesture feature was that the mouse gesture feature conflicted with certain other activities of the end user. When the end user wanted to select text, he found that he was accidentally activating the mouse gesture command feature. The Firefox extensions related to the mouse gesture feature has popularized the feature and have brought all the problems faced by the end users into the limelight. As more and more people begin finding a practical and long term solution to the same, it is just a matter of time before the mouse gesture feature is perfected and is rid of all flaws.
The reason why one can safely say that the mouse gesture feature will be rid of all the flaws is that the Firefox extension has brought the mouse gesture feature into the mainstream. Rather than being a feature that is used by a clichéd group of web developers or experts, the mouse gesture feature has been portrayed as a feature for general use by the average end user.
Many critics fear that overexposure of any feature during the initial stage of any new innovating may create negative publicity. However, the truth is that any and every new feature has flaws and difficulties. The presence of flaws does not necessarily mean that the feature itself is flawed. In case of the mouse gesture feature, all the flaws in the feature are nothing but the difficulties faced by the end user to adapt to the same. Till date, the end user of the web browsing software application has been using the mouse only to activate buttons and to move the pointer. The idea of using a combination of the movement and the buttons of the mouse to activate is a new one. It will take time to get used to the new feature. In fact, the Firefox web browsing software application is doing the best thing by offering this feature to million and millions of its end users as a Firefox extension. Sooner or later, the end users will become used to the revolutionary concept and the mouse gesture feature will become very popular.
When the tabbed web browsing feature was introduced on a large scale by the Firefox web browser, many people faced a lot of problems getting used to it. However, as people adapted themselves to the presence of the tabs in the web browser, they found that they were in a position to extract more from the web. Soon, people discovered that the features provided by the Firefox web browser with regard to the tabbed browsing feature were good but could be better. That is when they resorted to extensions like the Tab Mix Plus extension to enhance the features offered by the tabbed browsing features. It is just a matter of time before the same process will be repeated with the mouse gesture feature as well.
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