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Mac users rejoice, Mozilla engineers are working hard to bring to you more and more multi-touch goodies for the Firefox browser. Starting with FF 3.1 beta 1 Mac users have seen added support for multi-touch gestures. Now, in beta 2 there are even more gestures such as allowing users to toogle through tabs with a twist. However, adding this support wasn’t easy as Apple has been very secretive with providing the necessary APIs to developers to fully support the supported gestures on OS X. They have been criticized for keeping them to themselves and using them to enhance only their products such as iPhoto and Safari; a Firefox competitor. Mozilla hasn’t opening broadcast these features mostly because of the way they had to discover them and add support. Mozilla isn’t the only company though that has had to resort to reverse engineering to add functionality to their programs. While Apple is working on making the API available to developers they seem to be dragging their feet to retain a competitive advantage by only officially supporting the gestures in their programs for now.

Full Article: TG Daily