Posts Tagged ‘Minefield’

Of the myriad of new features included on newer Apple laptops, none has more unrealized potential than the multi-touch trackpads.

Some crafty developers over at Mozilla seem to be keen to this, and have included support for Apple’s new multi-touch keyboard in a new experimental version of Firefox dubbed Minefield. Minefield includes many enhancements that may (or may not) be part of the upcoming 3.1 release of Firefox. This new release takes advantage of the three-finger swipe, “the pinch”, and the two-finger rotate gestures built into OS X. The three-finger swipe act as a foward/back button, the two-finger rotate gesture switches between tabs, and the pinch move will make text on the screen larger or smaller (a la command and the +/- keys). In my few days using Minefield, the three-finger foward/back gesture has become second nature, and has completely replaced the mouse gestures I used to use. The two-fingered rotation to switch between tabs is somewhat less useful due to its high sensitivity which makes it harder than its worth to move quickly to the tab you want. Read More