Firefox has a vibrant community of developers that are constantly releasing new tools and tweaks to make your browser experience more and more enjoyable. We knew right away that using mouse gestures with KwiClick would increase it’s ease of use, and make a user’s experience using KwiClick more enjoyable. So, rather than reinventing the wheel and building our own gesture engine, we decided to integrate with existing mouse gesture addons, FireGestures being the first. We’ve already released an update to integrate with the popular NoScript addon, to help users decide which types of content they want to give permission to view inside KwiClick.
There are pros and cons to either approach. On the pro side, it helps us keep our addon a bit lighter weight as we only need to write the code to integrate with the other addon, rather than write all the code to mimic an addons specific functionality. On the cons side, if a user doesn’t have the addon that we are integrating with, they may not get the full experience that we are trying to provide to everyone. We’re going to be keeping a close eye on this over the coming months, and it would be great to hear your feedback on our approach.