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Firefox 3.7's Windows 7 shell features continue taking shape
While Mozilla's release schedule may have hit some snags lately, Firefox developers keep chugging along. Though Windows 7 shell integration features have taken a back seat in 3.6, they're alive and kicking in the 3.7 pre-alpha.
Jump List support is much more complete now, and it's also highly customizable. The about:config page now includes preferences for each group on the list -- tasks, recent pages, and frequently visited pages. You're also able to specify the maximum number of items you want displayed in each list. To locate the Windows 7 preferences, just type taskbar into the config filter box.
Aero Peek and Superbar thumbnails, unfortunately, still seem to be experiencing the spinning wheel problem. No image appears, and the Aero Peek preview shows only an empty gray window. Personally, I'd rather just be able to click back to my Firefox window anyway -- and not have to hover and choose a tab first.
If you'd like to take the Firefox 3.7 pre-alpha for a spin, download it from the Mozilla FTP.
Jump List support is much more complete now, and it's also highly customizable. The about:config page now includes preferences for each group on the list -- tasks, recent pages, and frequently visited pages. You're also able to specify the maximum number of items you want displayed in each list. To locate the Windows 7 preferences, just type taskbar into the config filter box.
Aero Peek and Superbar thumbnails, unfortunately, still seem to be experiencing the spinning wheel problem. No image appears, and the Aero Peek preview shows only an empty gray window. Personally, I'd rather just be able to click back to my Firefox window anyway -- and not have to hover and choose a tab first.
If you'd like to take the Firefox 3.7 pre-alpha for a spin, download it from the Mozilla FTP.
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Subscribe to commentsPenguinJan 7th 2010 3:26PM
According to Microsoft's UI design guidelines ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511446.aspx#jump ), section Guidelines -> Jumplists, you should not show both Frequent and Recent. Nor should you fill up all the jumplist slots just because you have data. The fewer, the better. You should only include useful frequent items, not Redirecting.
bootareenJan 8th 2010 12:16AM
Interesting. I don't know how many people would open a new tab using a jumplist though. Browsers are getting so complicated we even need shells. Soon, we'll be running computers via browsers. Oh wait...
pujaJan 7th 2010 5:32PM
How did you get those pinned tabs into the jumplist?
Btw, since several builds there's not only the spinning wheel problem but also the problem of closed tabs still showing in Aero Peek and some of the open ones not - for now it's better to just disable that feature.