Firefox Windows 7 support

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That's up to mozilla, considering the public beta was just released it would probably take some time. I don't know if they would be able to add it to 3.1 or not.

Unfortunately, I doubt it will be in Firefox 3.1 as well :( In fact, I'm almost certain it won't be as Firefox 3.1 is beta 2 already :(

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Unfortunately, I doubt it will be in Firefox 3.1 as well :( In fact, I'm almost certain it won't be as Firefox 3.1 is beta 2 already :(

It isn't. I was using Fx 3.1B2 for awhile today and it isn't fixed. Windows Live Mail also would not work with it.

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For all we know, there could be a Firefox 3.2 release by the time Windows 7 is finally RTM'd.

Adding this feature to FF3.1 is out of question as they are working on beta 3 right now, and hope to get this released by end of March. With that said, FF3.2 will likely have this feature. But, 3.2 final release probably will not come until towards the end of year.

I think it is possible for someone to make an addon to achieve the same thing for the meantime.

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There is no doubt Mozilla will, but I doubt we'll see a Win7 version until at least 3.5 or even 4.0. Don't forget they already have their hands full right now, but I'm sure they'll have something by around the time of the launch of 7.

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I meant there's a bug entry in Mozilla's bug DB about supporting it.

And if MS did release documentation I can't find it on MSDN, their search engine does suck though so that isn't surprising.

It's not on MSDN library site, but you can download the beta version of the Windows SDK that corresponds to the public beta here which seems to include the latest documentation.

The interface is ITaskbarList3 (like in this progress bar example).

And yes, both Firefox extensions and plugins have full access to the Windows API and can run any code with the same privileges as the user running Firefox. Keep that in mind if you install random ones.

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hdood is correct it is the ITaskbarList3 interface that does all the magic. There is documentation from MSDN found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd378460(VS.85).aspx

If I was a coder I'd do it myself but I'm not so I'll just have to sit in the corner and wait for someone to sort it out...

There seems to be 3 usefull things that should be implemented: taskbar tab preview, progress bar indication and the Jumplists.

For the taskbar tab preview doody, it doesn't seem that it would be that much work... if I am right, FF3 would need to be told to register the tabs as they open and close using the calls in this section.

Progress Bar calls are here and the Jump list calls are here

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You can follow along with Windows 7 bugs on the tracking bug here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474052

See the text that says "Depends on:" and then the list of links after it? Those are all bugs related to Windows 7. We use "tracking bugs" sometimes to group bugs together. In particular, one bug in that list is:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474060 - Show download progress in app icon in Windows 7 taskbar

It seems unlikely that this will land in time for the Firefox 3.1 release, but it certainly may make the 3.2 release (if that's what it winds up being called), which is targeted for the end of 2009. Also, it's possible that we might backport the patch to a later 3.1.x release, like we did with some Vista patches in later 2.0.0.x releases.

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Probably take them ages to implement anything.

How long has Vista been out and still no glass support?

Not bashing, just saying, I know bug fixes come first...

It's extremely easy to get glass in firefox with the glasser extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7336

With just glasser + stylish you can make fx look as good as ie7:

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