On Monday, Mozilla released the latest beta version of Firefox 3.1. This "Beta 2" version of the popular web browser adds a number of new features across all supported platforms 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 since made it into the official Beta 2 released on Monday and is expected to be released with the final 3.1 version of Firefox.
Supported gestures are even more robust than Safari's support and include ("Swipe" refers to 3-finger Swipe):
- Swipe Left: Go back in history (hold Cmd to open it in a tab) - Swipe Right: Go forward in history - Swipe Up: Go to the top of the page - Swipe Down: Go to the end of the page - Pinch Together: Zoom out - Pinch Apart: Zoom in - Twist Right: Next tab - Twist Left: Previous tab
Mozilla warns that the beta version of Firefox is intended for testing use only. There's no known release date for the final release of Firefox 3.1.
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