Firefox 4 B4 Bringing Direct2D GPU Acceleration

[liquidsnake718]

my flash and videos run fine, doesnt it also matter depending on the connection one has?

 

[mouettus]

maybe I've been missing something but seems like I've been enabling d2d since the first beta. nothing new here?

 

[dEAne]

It will depend on your video card too, so if you have a setup for simple surfing and downloading you don't to turn on the switch.

 

[annymmo]

I see using the graphics card as a very good evolution.
Hopefully they come around and get Direct2D ready as well as OpenGL.

 

[AEternal1]

ive not been interested in firefox before, but this new feature to use my graphics card has piqued my curiosity...only i can find this config page that was mentioned so i could turn it on......where did they hide this? i cant find it after 15 mins of searching......hooray for makeing things intuitive...or not.

 

[extremepcs]

[citation][nom]thebigt42[/nom]Am I stupid for asking WHY my browser needs to be GPU Accelerated?[/citation]

3D Porn!

 

[enforcer22]

[citation][nom]phatboe[/nom]The Mozilla developers need to stick to using open standards for hardware acceleration instead of using MS's proprietary Direct2D GPU acceleration.[/citation]

Why other then cross platform which im sure they will do, the open standards suck.

 

[masaji]

I used Chrome for a while, but then returned to good ol' firefox because I don't enjoy being served up huge portions of megabotnet and adblockfail rape inside my rectum.

 

[blink180heights]

i don't remember the last time i used Internet Explorer.. oh wait when for windows updates ~!

 

[soundping]

Uninstalled Beta4 after it lock-up on my third site.

 

[antilycus]

OPEN GL ONLY not all of us use FIREFOX on Windows. It's enough to make me switch to chrome. What's enough you ask? The completely disregard to the rest of the computing world that isn't MS's creation. OPEN GL runs across ALL (even LINUX) operating systems and it's been updated quite a bit in the past few years.

 

[doorspawn]

Not liking this.

This will make the Firefox speed difference between Windows and Linux/others more in favor of Windows, which could affect the number of people moving from Windows to other platforms.

The developers should remember one of the reasons they remain popular is that they are making open and free software. They stand to lose this popularity if they make decisions like this.

 

[Guest]

People moving from Windows? You mean all 2 of them?