If you have a MacBook Air or recent MacBook Pro with a multitouch trackpad, you have probably already fallen in love with the “swipe” gesture. Three fingers swiped across the trackpad to the left or right take you back or forward a page, respectively, in your browsing history. Only native apps like Finder and Safari have built-in support for swiping and as such Safari has been my primary browser since I picked up my MacBook Air.
With the upcoming release of Firefox 3.0 tomorrow (June 17th), you might want to checkout MultiClutch. It lets you bind gestures like swipe, zoom and pinch to any Cocoa application, such as Firefox. Hat tip to Calvin for initially telling me about MultiClutch.
Once you install MultiClutch you can setup different keys combinations and gesture bindings for various apps as well as setting up swiping in Firefox. Now you can use Firefox as your primary browser without being stuck to using the back and forward icons.
Are you looking forward to Firefox 3.0’s launch tomorrow? Now, if only Firefox 3.0 had better text rendering like Safari..
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Firefox might not have better text rendering than Safari, but it’s definitely getting better.
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If I had one of the new MBP I would love this, I can really see me using it.
Thanks Paul, I just picked up my new Macbook Pro last week, and I was sad to see that this function didn’t work by default!
I will defiantly be using this with Firefox 3 RC2!
Thanks,
The reason I switched from MacBook to PRO was to get multi-touch.
Without realizing it, I have been using my iPhone gestures on the MacBook touch pad for months, of course they don’t work there.
Clearly my brain has made the switch, good to here my machine will get in line.
dk
My main problem with Safari is when I have 30 or more tabs open I have to hit the arrow to see a tab that is off the screen, but it still displays the first 20 tabs or whatever. I wish there was an arrow in Safari like Firefox so you could actually scroll through the tabs. Does anyone know of a workaround in Safari? And Know I really don’t want to open more windows.
Firefox 3? mmmm I dunno actually. i’m running the last build bu I have to say that Safari 4 is pretty good and lighter at the start.
I believe i’m honestly not geek enough to know which one is better cause in terms of performance, speed and stability they both look the same.
i’m looking forward to read details about their engine to make a decision :)
Firefox 3 final release now out, download day looking good even after the bump on the road in its first hours. Have you guys updated? Thoughts? I don’t see much change between the release candidates and the final release, but then again I think it’s normal.
Gotta love that new iPhone 3G s, might get one if I can find a good AT&T plan with it