This has nothing to do with any Apple news whatsoever. Saying this news fuels apple rumors uses the same flawed logic that, since Toyota is making hybrid engines, it fuels rumors that BMW is planning to build a Prius.
happy24n7
· 1 month ago
great!
Paul
· 1 month ago
Meh! Posts like this just make me think about how stale Firefox has become due to getting comfortable with their market-share. The browser feels heavier on the system with every increment and there appears to be less and less innovation in regards to making my experience of the internet better. I ultimately want a light-weight browser which blows my mind, no one which detects I'm rolling down a hill and keeps it's logo at the top-right of the screen.
Name
· 1 month ago
i very much agree with you. what's the real advantage in rotating stuff on the browser window? cool, but totally useless.
passy
· 1 month ago
How should Apple have any impact on this new feature? They have their own browser. Your speculations are getting weaker with every post.
michael1885
· 1 month ago
Apple have their own browser just like Microsoft have for Windows - but people might still choose to use FF on an Apple just as they do on a PC, mightn't they?
Stan_Schroeder
· 1 month ago
To clarify: in the post I'm merely assuming that a feature such as this one sets a stage for a different kind of laptop. Users don't rotate laptops often, if ever; but a tablet-like, keyboardless device would be ideal for this functionality.
Matt Rogowski
· 1 month ago
I think what Stan's getting at is that, as there's not many devices that can actually use this right now, there's scope for speculation that they'll be more popular in time, and a prime candidate would be an iTablet. Chances are the iTablet had an influence on this being in Firefox, I doubt they'd have bothered otherwise.
That's what I take it as saying anyway.
Oren
· 1 month ago
They're called Tablet PCs... HP, Toshiba, Acer, and 24 other companies make them. I have a 6 year old one sitting next to me, and there's plenty more of them out in the wild. They have this crazy ability to flip screens and be used in either landscape or portrait, and OMG, have accelerometers!
I think this tablet hype is going a little overboard...
Michal Sławiński
· 1 month ago
How many times will you use this feature??? It's compleatly useless for most of people...
coxy
· 1 month ago
I don't know... sometimes I like nothing more than picking up my desktop PC and leaning it on a jaunty angle for my friends to see. It's really awkward because they then have to tilt their heads to see the content properly.
I think this will save many a sore neck in my household!
dainathomas
· 1 month ago
I have always liked firefox for its addons and extension .. even till the date .. not any other browser provides that much of extensions and addons as much as Firefox provides ..
Best, Daina Thomas
Shabbir Bhimani
· 1 month ago
Great to see things like this. :D
technicalfault
· 1 month ago
Does anyone else miss the animated downloading icon that used to be a feature of web browsers before tabbed browsing took hold? For example, the rotating IE or Windows icon, or the Netscape fireworks?
There must be an add-on for that somewhere.
Devid.H
· 1 month ago
This feature is very greate, but i think that tt's compleatly useless for most of people.
tweetamar
· 1 month ago
Yup! The Apple Tablet is the ideal tool for this kind of technology. It's not that there aren't other tablets out there already with accelerometers - but Apple definitely has the edge in terms of branding.
G. Liu
· 1 month ago
My 5-yr old laptop has tilt sensors. I wonder how this will help?
Victor Ibe
· 1 month ago
So where does this fit in the W3C standards strictness that they blast Microsoft for? This is a proprietary command limited to a single browser. Was'nt this one of the reasons people want IE6 dead. At this point I think Microsoft is right to wait out the standards adoption because iys better to be late to the party then to arrive early and find that the party was cancelled or the venue was changed
PowerGen
· 1 month ago
I don't really see how this improves functionality? It is pretty neat aesthetically.
cityfan
· 1 month ago
It's another step to making technological objects easy to use. Another 10,20 years, we might not even have keyboards...
CVRepublic
· 1 month ago
Soon we'll have to shake our laptop to reset a form. You'll see :)
animalbrad
· 1 month ago
Well isn't this useless, as is a accelerometer on a laptop. still it be cool on a handheld device such as the iphone.
umar
· 1 month ago
Firefox team is upgrading it continuously.This is great job by team
Yogesh Agarwal
· 1 month ago
this is so cool!!
Gaby
· 1 month ago
I think this would be a pointless and somewhat annoying feature for those with laptops capable of it. Right now my laptop is not flat because of how I'm sitting, yet I would not want the pages I am browsing to suddenly start rotating, nor would I want to have to keep turning the feature on/off when I would/wouldn't want to use it.
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Saying this news fuels apple rumors uses the same flawed logic that, since Toyota is making hybrid engines, it fuels rumors that BMW is planning to build a Prius.
That's what I take it as saying anyway.
I think this tablet hype is going a little overboard...
I think this will save many a sore neck in my household!
Best,
Daina Thomas
There must be an add-on for that somewhere.