mozillalinks.org - 10/22/2008
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Mozilla’s Edward Lee has released an experimental build of Firefox 3.1 pre-Beta 2 that adds support for multitouch gestures on the latest MacBook’s(*) multitouch trackpads. Implemented gestures are: These are the actions you can perform with the different gestures: Edward warns that this ...
ed.agadak.net - 10/22/2008
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ed.agadak.net —
I finally upgraded from my iBook G4 to
one of those new shiny aluminum MacBooks last Tuesday,...
so over the weekend, I got to play around with the big buttonless glass trackpad. I noticed that I often used the 4-finger gestures to show all windows or ...
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Touching Firefox
build.mozilla.org - 10/22/2008
lifehacker.com - 10/22/2008
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Experimental Firefox Allows Multitouch Interaction
TheAppleBlog —
... on killer apps for multitouch trackpads. I think photos and graphics are the obvious targets off the bat. Being the Quicksilver junkie that I am, I’d love to see the Gestures plugin capability expanded to work with multitouch. That kind of feature would really explode the functionality (for me) that I get from Quicksilver!
So let’s hear it — what do you crave (as far as multitouch support goes) from third party software vendors?
Via MozillaLinks ...
Experimental Firefox 3.1 Build Gets Awesome Multitouch Gestures on Macs [Firefox]
Gizmodo —
... 2) from Mozilla's Edward Lee. It uses all of the majors—swipe, twist and pinch—in awesomely intuitive ways. Three-finger swipes left and right go back a page and forward, respectively, while up and down go to the top and bottom of the current page; twists switch tabs, in the direction you spin; and pinches zoom in and out. There's no word on whether these will be implemented into the final build of 3.1, but we're really hoping they are. [Ed Lee via Mozilla Links via Lifehacker]
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