Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 30th Oct 2009 22:42 UTC
Mozilla has released the first beta release of Firefox 3.6, which comes with some nice Windows 7 integration features. More specifically, the Firefox 3.6 beta integrates with the new taskbar in Windows 7.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Chrome 3 already supports jump lists although I'm not sure if it supports the new download progress indicator in the status bar icon as well (I'd have to boot into 7 for that and I'm too lazy to do that right now). If you count Chrome as a major application than technically it predates Firefox with its 7 integration. Chrome definitely does not support this tab preview feature like IE8.
Firefox will feature full Windows 7 integration with 3.7. The missing features that didn't make it for 3.6 (jump lists, progress indicator, DirectWrite support, new Glass theme) are already in the pipeline.
Firefox will feature full Windows 7 integration with 3.7. The missing features that didn't make it for 3.6 (jump lists, progress indicator, DirectWrite support, new Glass theme) are already in the pipeline.
I hope they also bring Direct2D support to Firefox so that all the UI is fully GPU accelerated rather than relying on the deprecated GDI/GDI+.
RE[2]: Chrome & Firefox 3.7
by Erunno on Sat 31st Oct 2009 10:14
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Member since:2007-06-22
I hope they also bring Direct2D support to Firefox so that all the UI is fully GPU accelerated rather than relying on the deprecated GDI/GDI+.
Cairo recently received an OpenGL backend first since Gecko is supposed to run on platforms other than Windows as well. The Mozilla wiki mentions that the developers are considering a Direct2D backend should the OpenGL performance turn out to be suboptimal.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/HardwareAcceleration
RE[2]: Chrome & Firefox 3.7
by twitterfire on Sat 31st Oct 2009 11:34
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2007-06-22
Chrome 3 already supports jump lists although I'm not sure if it supports the new download progress indicator in the status bar icon as well (I'd have to boot into 7 for that and I'm too lazy to do that right now). If you count Chrome as a major application than technically it predates Firefox with its 7 integration. Chrome definitely does not support this tab preview feature like IE8.
Firefox will feature full Windows 7 integration with 3.7. The missing features that didn't make it for 3.6 (jump lists, progress indicator, DirectWrite support, new Glass theme) are already in the pipeline.