Less than a fortnight after the release of the Beta 2, Mozilla this week popped out the next Beta iteration of their widely-used and much beloved, Firefox 4 product. Eager advocates with stong stomachs (ie some tolerance for crashes and bugs) can get it here.
Big HUGE news in this release is the inclusion of Touch. Used on a touch-screen device, your Firefox web-browser will now respond to many touch gestures, including pinch, rotate etc. Booyah!
From the marketing change list on the Mozilla blog:
“Multi-touch: Firefox 4 Beta now has multi-touch support for Windows 7, to enable people to
interact with Web content with their hands naturally. Developers can use multi-touch capabilities to leverage touch-enabled devices and provide people with an intuitive and fun browsing experience. For more details, see the blog posts by Paul Rouget and Felipe Gomes.”
There’s a very cool demo video on YouTube, showing some of the the Touch features.
Apparently, the next beta will also be released in the coming weeks. That’s a blistering pace of development from the Mozilla team!
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