According to a post on Edward Lee's blog, Firefox may be getting multi-touch gestures in one of it's future releases. Edward recently upgraded to a new MacBook. However, much to his dismay, his new notebook with the fancy glass trackpad and all those gestures would not work in his favorite browser - Firefox. So not to be discouraged, he sought to submit some bug reports to Mozilla and discovered that some of these had already been submitted and even resolved - months ago in fact. Reports were filed for Camino and Firefox. So where the heck are these changes?

We downloaded the current official 3.1 beta version of Firefox from Mozilla. Nope, no multi-touch gestures there. Fortunately, there is a beta version of Firefox that does support multi-touch. if you are interested in trying a version out the multi-touch Firefox you can download the beta browser here.

Give it a try if your interested, but like all Beta software, you should try it on a machine that you do not rely on for daily use. It's a good example of the future possible uses for multi-touch. Hopefully, the developers of Firefox will activate or add these features to a future official Firefox release. Hopefully, other developers will follow suit and we'll all be swiping tapping and multi-touching the day away.