Star Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 Brings Windows 7 Integration
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 30th Oct 2009 22:42 UTC
Mozilla & Gecko clones 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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RE: Chrome & Firefox 3.7
by kaiwai on Sat 31st Oct 2009 03:39 UTC in reply to "Chrome & Firefox 3.7"
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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.


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+.

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RE[2]: Chrome & Firefox 3.7
by Erunno on Sat 31st Oct 2009 10:14 in reply to "RE: Chrome & Firefox 3.7"
Erunno 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

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PlatformAgnostic Member since:
2006-01-02

Very interesting link. Thanks for posting.

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RE[2]: Chrome & Firefox 3.7
by twitterfire on Sat 31st Oct 2009 11:34 in reply to "RE: Chrome & Firefox 3.7"
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2008-09-11


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+.


They can use Aero which is accelerated by default if I'm not mistaken.

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