Action over link (or selected)

[cjcornell]

I'm actually not sure if this is a bug, or instead, some functionality that I expected and is not there yet.
it is this -
I want to perform a gesture-action while on top of a link (or while text is selected)
examples:

mouse gesture: up-right (over a link) = open the link (under the mouse) in a new tab
or
selected text
mouse gesture: up-left = search for the selected text in a new tab

is this possible now (and I am just not doing something correctly?)
is this supposed to work, and is a bug?
or is ChromeGestures not designed to do these 2 tasks, and this is a new feature request?