Firefox 4 Beta 3 introduces Windows 7 touch support

Posted on Thursday, August 12 2010 @ 14:20 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Mozilla rolled out the third public beta version of Firefox 4, you can download it over here in 34 languages for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

The main new features in this beta release include the addition of touch events for Windows 7 systems with touchscreens, and a JavaScript improvement that should speed up the execution of heavy, numeric code, which is used for things like graphics and animations. Any bugs you encounter while testing Firefox 4 Beta 3 can be reported to Mozilla via the included feedback add-on.

Firefox 4 Beta 3 changelog:
  • Firefox 4 Beta 3 is available in 34 languages.
  • Web authors can now get touch events from Firefox users on Windows 7 machines.
  • A new way of representing values in JavaScript that allows Firefox to execute heavy, numeric code (used for things like graphics and animations) more efficiently.


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