Windows 7 comes with new Superbar, a re-designed version of the old Taskbar. Superbar provides lots of new functionality like Jumplist which allows you to access various useful options, recently opened documents, etc.
There is another interesting feature in this new Superbar which comes in action while downloading a file using Internet Explorer. The Superbar shows a live progressbar in IE Taskbar button which is very useful.
But Mozilla Firefox users can't enjoy these features because Firefox doesn't support these features atm but no need to worry, "Brent Friedman" @ CompuGeek website has created an awesome program "Winfox" which brings all these cool Superbar features to Firefox.
Following are 2 screenshots of Winfox in action:
"Winfox" can add following functionality to Firefox under Windows 7:
- Frequent Items support
- Tasks support
- Pin support
- Auto-detection of the Firefox directory and user profile
- FavIcon support (downloads top fifteen favicons to your Firefox Cache directory)
- Launch Firefox by clicking on the Winfox icon
- Linking of all open Firefox windows – Sets all Firefox windows to use Winfox (only if Winfox is running)
- Taskbar progress overlay when downloading files
- Number of open tabs illustrated using a taskbar icon overlay
- Multiple Firefox profile support
Simply pin Winfox to Taskbar to utilize easy launch and access to your Firefox Jumplist.
You can download it using following link:
This article was posted in Browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Software Zone, Windows 7.
Subscribe to RSS Feed |
Email Newsletter |
More Articles
Related Articles
Popular Articles
- Frequently Asked Problems with Solutions
- Is Your System Infected with a Virus / Spyware / Adware / Trojan?
- Transform Windows Vista into 7 without using Customization pack
- Transform Windows XP into 7 without using Customization pack
- Transform Windows XP into Vista without using Customization pack
- All About Resource Hacker in a brief Tutorial
- Master Tutorial to Make Your Windows 7 Super Fast
- Master Tutorial to Make Your Windows Vista Super Fast
- Master Tutorial to Make Your Windows XP Super Fast
- All Kinds of Restrictions for Windows XP, Vista and 7
MAGNUMHEART
nice. when will other applications have the same features
for compatibility with
superbar. hope they make adjustments for windows 7 asap. ^^
MAGNUMHEART
nice. when will other applications have the same features
for compatibility with
superbar. hope they make adjustments for windows 7 asap. ^^
Tyler
FYI, Firefox 3.6 is expected to have full Windows 7 support.
Tyler
Firefox 3.6 is expected to have full support of Windows 7 when it is launched in November.
Afizz
What are the new features in Firefox 3.6? I had tried namoroka before but i still can't see the differnce.only the icon change(again)
Levar
I've seen this on Google Chrome, good to know FF3.6 will have full support
Tyler
@Afizz, Namoroka does not have fully developed features yet, being only in alpha stage. However, the main focus will be on Windows 7, major startup and application performance enhancements, as well as Tracemonkey (javascript), and web content speed improvements. It is by no means as large an update as 3.5 was, but will be a nice polish release.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Namoroka has the goals of the release.
Also, FYI, the plain icon is not the final icon, but only the development icon. It will be replaced when 3.6 is released with the current firefox 3.5 one.
Tyler
Afizz, the main differences are found at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Namoroka. Mainly performence (the new icon is simply a development. When 3.6 final is released, it will use the 3.5 icon.) Also, so far, no major changes have occurred, as it is not even in beta yet. Mostly backend preperation is being worked on, and a BUNCH of bugs have been fixed.
Tyler
man, askvg is seriously slow and seemingly forgetting my comments, so I post again, THEN it shows them.
VG
^^ You comment was under moderation, thats why It was not visible when you posted. I approved it later.