by Mick on October 25, 2008
firefox 3.1 with multitouch support
It’s a good news for Firefox 3.1 and Mac users. Mozilla has just released Firefox 3.1 pre-beta 2 Mac developers. Consequently, Firefox will support multi-touch feature that is activated by using two, three or fourof your fingers.
Three-finger sweep to the left and right, for example, apply to the navigation page to the front and back. Three-finger sweep in the vertical jump will jump the page to the top or bottom. Playing finger clockwise movement of the tab from left to right and vice versa. Meanwhile, zoom in and out of a page is done via the ‘pinch’ motion.
Unfortunately, at this stage, Edward Lee from the Mozilla not know whether the finger-friendliness will appear in the final release of Firefox which is expected to be ready early next year. What is clear, the trial features; these can be enjoyed by users of the MacBook Pro. So, we’ll wait when the multi-touch features are present for the other platforms.
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Firefox 3.1 beta
Previously we posted about how hot the web browser battle since the coming of Google Chrome and the Popular IE. And Now Mozilla releases Firefox 3.1 Beta for developer testing and community feedback. The new version came up with some new features you can expect, like Gecko layout engine, support for CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 properties, Smart Location Bar and more…, lets take a closer looks at what the Firefox 3.1 beta 1 all about;
Improved Ctrl-Tab 3D interface
A new tab-switching shortcut that shows previews of the tab you’re switching to
Faster JavaScript
Firefox 3.1 is proven to be the fastest compared to other browsers, and this is due to the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine that built into 3.1.
Location Awareness
Firefox 3.1 will set up geolocation to the mix, streamlining the process required to get information from web sites based on your location
The Web technologies Support
To compete against the other emerging browsers, th Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 also support the Latest Web tech, such as <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, web worker threads, JavaScript query selectors, SVG transforms and offline applications.
