Select a gesture you want to use for that action.ģ.

Here’s a quick intro for setting up a BTT action.Ģ. I have an introduction to BetterTouchTool, and it explains more about the application. A context palette pops up and I can select a menu item from there. If there’s a menu item that I have not created a finger gesture for, I can use a Three Finger Swipe Up to show all the Safari menu items right under my cursor. Four Finger Swipe Up: Activate the WordPress Link Insert.Three Finger Click: Copy the URL of the webpage.Pinch Out Two Fingers: Zoom Out a webpage.Pinch In Two Fingers: Zoom In a webpage.When it comes to Safari, here are some of the finger gestures and actions I use. While Apple’s offers a few dozen finger gesture activations, BTT offers hundreds more, with dozens of actions, including clicking menu items, activating keyboard shortcuts, opening files, folders, and webpages, resizing windows, inserting snippets of text, and much more. Safari includes numerous menu items that can easily be activated via BetterTouchTool, Keyboard Maestro, or by voice command using Dragon Dictate. This is why I’m a heavy BetterTouchTool user.

Half time I can’t even remember the hotkey for particular shortcuts. And if my hand is already on my trackpad, I don’t want to click a keyboard shortcut to activate a menu item. Whether I’m using my 27″ iMac or my 11″ MacBook Air, I find it a waste of time to drag my cursor to the menu bar in order to click a menu item. The finger gesture application, BetterTouchTool (free) can make navigating Safari or any web browser faster, and it’s way better than using Apple’s finger gesture features. The Safari web browser is probably the most used application on the Mac, but it can be a waste of time when you have to click buttons or keyboard shortcuts when your hand is already on the trackpad or MagicMouse in order to navigate the browser.

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