Phoenix 0.5 and mouse gestures
Phoenix 0.5 has been released, and so far it’s an absolute dream. The Windows installer is a paltry 6.1 MB and it is noticable faster than Phoenix 0.4—the initial speed boost was so impressive I spent several minutes loading up large, bloated sites just to admire the speed with which they appeared. The Phoenix team are aiming for a 5 MB Windows installer for the final release—here’s hoping they manage it.
Unfortunately there is still no menu option for the Mouse Gestures package to change the mouse button needed to trigger a gesture (it defaults to left but I much prefer right). If you want gestures to be linked to the right mouse button you’ll need to do the following:
- Install the gestures package from here.
- Restart Phoenix, then close it down again. This adds the default gestures preferences to your
prefs.js
file. - Open the Phoenix
prefs.js
file in a text editor. On Windows, you will find this in your Application Data file—mine (Win 98) is inC:\Windows\Application Data\Phoenix\Profiles\User\x2p6afl9.slt
. - Find the line containing
user_pref("mozgest.mousebutton", 0);
and change the number to 2 (for right mouse button) or 1 (for middle mouse button). - Save the file, reload Phoenix and you’re done.
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