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Firefox 4 for Mac getting hardware acceleration soon
Windows users of Firefox have been enjoying hardware acceleration for a little while now, as Mozilla hurried to keep pace with Microsoft's hardware acceleration in IE9. Without MS to compete with on the Mac, acceleration for that platform took a backseat in Mozilla's development schedule. But wait! There's good news, Mac-loving Firefox fans: hardware acceleration has worked its way back into the plans for the final release of FF4.
Firefox 4 Beta 7, the last beta to get new features before Mozilla locks things down and begins to work on stability, might include acceleration. It's in the nightly builds right now, so keep your fingers crossed that it makes the cut for the last beta!
Unfortunately, there might still be some more work to do: turning on OpenGL -- the graphics interface for the Mac version of FF -- improves load times on a lot of slow pages, but it slows others down up to six percent. Here's hoping that acceleration arrives in Firefox 4, with speedier load times across the board.
[via CNET]
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Subscribe to commentsJamesOct 1st 2010 5:43AM
This is a fantastic story. I mean fantastic in the traditional sense of a "fantasy". Seriously, it's usual to get a new feature working right on one platform first before expanding support to other platforms. Also, Mozilla has been working on hardware acceleration a year, just like Microsoft, and it has been only recently been flipped to on by defaut in the betas as it has matured. Yes, it was there before too, just not on by default. This article makes it sound as if Mozilla is scrambling to chase Microsoft's tail. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised after other recent gems here like "This is why you should use Internet Explorer 9".
JeffOct 5th 2010 8:01PM
FF blows for OSX.
MujiOct 7th 2010 10:22PM
Nice, now all we Mac users have to do is prepare more RAM and more food and drinks for spare time during the Spinning Marble of Doom appeared every-time what starting Firefox