New Firefox 4 Beta Has Direct2D GPU Acceleration

[lejay]

[citation][nom]nguyentruc85[/nom]How about game online integrated within new version?[/citation]
try googling 'flash games'

 

[nukemaster]

[citation][nom]joytech22[/nom]Soo.. where are the sites we can test this? the ones in the pictures above.[/citation]
The one in the picture(video) above is actually hosted internally at Firefox. Guess its just there for them to show off.

 

[sidran32]

So, I remember when IE9 was announced to only support Windows Vista and Windows 7, due to the Direct2D calls, and how everyone was calling it a ploy by Microsoft to force everyone to upgrade or lock out the XP users arbitrarily from upgrading (just like they did with DirectX 10, they say). Now Firefox is announcing that Direct2D acceleration only will work on Windows 7. So now what do you say?

 

[restatement3dofted]

[citation][nom]sidran32[/nom]So, I remember when IE9 was announced to only support Windows Vista and Windows 7, due to the Direct2D calls, and how everyone was calling it a ploy by Microsoft to force everyone to upgrade or lock out the XP users arbitrarily from upgrading (just like they did with DirectX 10, they say). Now Firefox is announcing that Direct2D acceleration only will work on Windows 7. So now what do you say?[/citation]

People always complain when companies stop supporting old hardware/software. People cried foul when companies stopped making PS2 ports of games when the PS3 was launched, when MS/Sony stopped offering backwards compatibility on new consoles, etc. There's always going to be someone that doesn't want to spend the money to upgrade, even years later, when it is completely reasonable for a company to stop offering support for its old products and focus solely on its current ones.

 

[doopydoo22]

[citation][nom]sidran32[/nom]So, I remember when IE9 was announced to only support Windows Vista and Windows 7, due to the Direct2D calls, and how everyone was calling it a ploy by Microsoft to force everyone to upgrade or lock out the XP users arbitrarily from upgrading (just like they did with DirectX 10, they say). Now Firefox is announcing that Direct2D acceleration only will work on Windows 7. So now what do you say?[/citation]
I'm guessing they'd say that an entire program not functioning on an OS is not the same as one feature not functioning on an OS.

 

[JE_D]

I used a java-script webpage timer. Firefox 4 beta 5 Now loads pages faster than Google Chrome 6
when loading a webpage for the first time and then loading from the cache Firefox is faster on both by about 1.0-1.2 seconds every time

 

[JE_D]

[citation][nom]kelemvor4[/nom]Didn't work well for me. Adblock+ said it was running, but I had ads everywhere. Browser ended up crashing after about 5 minutes. Guess that's why they call it a beta.[/citation]
You need to be running the DEV build of adblock plus for it to work on the firefox betas https://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/adblockplus/

 

[reprotected]

I was hoping that OpenGL would be integrated into Firefox, but I guess I was wrong.

 

[lashton]

this is the shittiest of all FF rleases, i mean FF is shit fullstop but this is over the top shit, I dont think FF developers actually know how to make a web broswer!

 

[Guest]

"Can you name any alternate to vector motion graphics"

Whee!! JavaScripted SVG! Oh yes we are thinking narrow today aren't we.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

If you were waiting for the version of Firefox that takes advantage of your new ATI or Nvidia GPU.

Isn't this a fragmented sentence?

 

[agnickolov]

I don't see any technical reason for Windows Vista to be excluded...

 

[xophaser]

I been using beta 4 for a while and it has been great. This last update on Tuesday messed everything up. It crashes all the time now and the font are fuzzy looking. Firefox customer chat is now off, because people are complaining too much. don't update your latest beta.

 

[kronos_cornelius]

so this works on Linux ? I see the demo is on a Mac... I am confused because the feature was added using MS Direct X

 

[Guest]

Yay!
More infections by porn, trojans, viruses, and possibly hacks are possible now with HTML5!

Not to mention that soon you'll be forced to see a webpage showing you a whole 3D movie (without your consent), drain the battery on your laptop, just so you could read (the old fashioned way is reading) a news article!

 

[dEAne]

ok I will.