In an effort to improve the user experience, Microsoft has reintroduced mouse gestures in its Edge Canary release, a feature previously present in the old Edge before the transition to Chromium.

Microsoft Edge gestures work when you hold down the right click on your mouse and move the mouse. With gestures, you can now perform various browser actions using simple mouse movements, including navigating between pages, managing tabs, and controlling page loads.

Examples of these gestures include swiping left to go back a page, swiping right to go forward, and vertical gestures for scrolling.

More complex gestures allow you to close and reopen tabs and even stop a page from loading. Microsoft also introduced features like Show Mouse Track and Show Action Hint, which visualize mouse movement trajectories and provide hints for gesture-based actions.

In the latest version of Edge Canary, it is possible to try out mouse gestures by enabling the “Microsoft Edge Mouse Gesture” flag in the browser settings.

The reintroduction of these gestures gives users a more intuitive and efficient way to navigate, but that’s not all. Microsoft is also working on other improvements for Edge, such as integrating Bing AI into Edge’s context menu, introduction of the search field in the collectionsand more