ed.agadak.net - 10/22/2008
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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 the desktop but rarely used any 3-finger ...
mozillalinks.org - 10/22/2008
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mozillalinks.org —
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 ...
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Experimental Firefox with multitouch support for Mac OS X
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gizmodo.com - 10/23/2008
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gizmodo.com —
Wish you could use some of your MacBook's
fancier touch gestures, like three-finger swipes, in Firefox? Well...
you can, with a new experimental build of Firefox 3.1 (pre-beta 2) from Mozilla's Edward Lee . It uses all of the majors—swipe, twist ...
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Experimental Firefox 3.1 Build Gets Awesome Multitouch ...
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Experimental version of Firefox supports MacBook multi-touch gestures
jkOnTheRun —
... but since Firefox is my default browser of choice I miss out on the gesture goodness. The new MacBooks support these gestures in Safari but Firefox is left out in the cold, at least until now. One of the Mozilla developers has put together an experimental version of Firefox 3.1 beta that supports these gestures on supported Macs. What does experimental mean? This special beta version of 3.1 is even more beta than the others as it is not official. It also means that this gesture support may not even make it into the final 3.1 version so using it is ...
Experimental Firefox Allows Multitouch Interaction
TheAppleBlog —
... Any of you who are in a position to take advantage of this cool new feature in Firefox, can thank Edward Lee for his efforts on this work. He details his progress here, if you’re interested in taking a look. ...
Experimental Firefox 3.1 Build Gets Awesome Multitouch Gestures on Macs [Firefox]
Gizmodo —
... Wish you could use some of your MacBook's fancier touch gestures, like three-finger swipes, in Firefox? Well you can, with a new experimental build of Firefox 3.1 (pre-beta 2) from Mozilla's Edward Lee. It uses all of the majors—swipe, twist and pinch—in awesomely intuitive ways. ...
Mozilla Wants You to Touch Its Browser in Multiple Ways
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... Mozilla's Eddie Lee is cooking up a pretty neat idea for FireFox to take
advantage of the new MacBooks' multi-touch trackpads. The notebooks
currently understand two- and three-finger gestures to control some
Apple applications, and Lee has already produced an experimental build integrating those commands into the popular FireFox browser. ...
Firefox Getting Multi-Touch Gestures?
Mac|Life all RSS Feed —
firefox According to a post on Edward Lee's blog, Firefox may be getting multi-touch gestures in one of it's future releases. Edward recently upgraded to a new MacBook. However, much to his dismay, his new notebook with the fancy glass trackpad and all those gestures would not work in his favorite browser - Firefox. So not to be discouraged, he sought to submit some bug reports to ...
Latest Firefox 3.1 Beta Adds Multi-Touch Support
MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors —
... including: - Private Browsing Mode - Faster JavaScript engine - Improved rendering - Support for new web technologies. But one feature unique to the Mac build is support for Apple's multi-touch trackpad which has been shipping in notebooks since January of this year. While Apple's Safari supports multi-touch gestures for common web browsing tasks (back, forward, resize text), support had been absent from Firefox. Experimental Firefox support for the multi-touch trackpad was first introduced in a pre-Beta build back in October by Mozilla's Edward Lee. The changes have ...
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