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Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 Released…Without Windows 7 Aero Peek?

Remember how excited I got about the beta 1 of Mozilla Firefox 3.6 the other week? Well I’ve just got the latest beta of 3.6, beta 3, and it’s missing a key feature I found in the previous beta! In case you didn’t catch the article, earlier Firefox 3.6 beta’s utilised Windows 7’s Aero Peek feature in the same way as Internet Explorer by displaying each of the tabs in previews.

I also noted that there was a bug, which displayed a spinning circle in the first preview window. This bug was also present in the second beta and apparently the recently released third, which explains its omission from the default features. Despite this, you’ll still find many under the hood upgrades as expected.

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How To Add Lots Of Windows 7 Country Themes To Your Collection

Ok, so Windows 7 is all the rage right now. In case you hadn’t heard, since its release a few weeks ago, the market share of Windows 7 has already surpassed that of Snow Leopard and Linux put together! One of my favourite features in Microsoft’s new OS is the ability to use a theme with various desktop backgrounds. If you haven’t seen this already, you can find it in the ‘Control Panel’ under ‘Appearance and Personalization’.

Since the testing versions of Windows, guides have been popping up all over the net on how to add other country themes to your own (country-inspired theme styles along with various wallpapers of the country concerned), which is included by default, which is all well and good, but it’s a bit of a hassle digging out the themes from the Windows folder on your hard drive, and when you do your choices are limited to 5 countries.

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Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 Preview

Remember Windows 7’s Aero Peek feature I was telling you about a few weeks ago? I loved it when I first used it, and I still love it now. The only problem, as with all new features in Operating Systems, was support for the feature in third party applications – I loved Aero Peek tabs in the super bar for Internet Explorer, but I don’t use Internet Explorer…

…Well you can imagine my excitement at the latest beta of Mozilla Firefox then, which includes support for Aero Peek in the super bar when you have multiple tabs open!

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Windows 7 Review – Part 2: Aero Features

Aero made its debut in Windows Vista with translucent windows, a newly designed taskbar and quite a bit of eye candy. Despite this, it never really added much functionality to the OS and to me it was more of a gimmick than a useful feature, although I did find myself using Aero Flip quite often. In Windows 7, however, it makes quite a few advancements with new features and improvements over old features.

I already wrote a little on some of the new Aero features in part one of the Windows 7 review, talking about features such as Aero Peek which is integrated into the new taskbar. In addition to Peek, there are two more key additions on the Aero scene named ‘Snap’ and ‘Shake’.

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