Firefox beta gets hardware acceleration

[jes]

Firefox beta gets hardware acceleration

Mozilla adds hardware acceleration to its latest beta release

 

[Anthro]

True 'fast' rendering of the site is not going to improve if you have a crap connection.
Regardless if you splashed out for a top of the range AMD / nVidia card that helps with the rendering of the page


OMW, feels weird to say AMD :wtf:

 

[burn]

what are you talking about? Telkom tells me that my 384 kbps is fast

 

[Nuro]

The builds with GPU acceleration is actually slower for me, and my fonts were ugly. Disabling acceleration fixed both issues. Beta 5 is a bit rough around the edges...

 

[Anthro]

what are you talking about? Telkom tells me that my 384 kbps is fast

I have a few words to counter that

"Back to The Future"
****ing retards Telkom

 

[burn]

I have been playing around with these betas but the lack of addon support has kept me from using them full time.

 

[Ancalagon]

Beta 5 is stable enough for home use but not for office use. The fonts do indeed look ugly (although apparently thats a Microsoft bug), I also had problems with some buttons and HTTPS not working. And, especially when using tab grouping/tab view, it seems much, much slower.

 

[Jab]

I have been playing around with these betas but the lack of addon support has kept me from using them full time.

Install the Add-on Compatibility Reporter, it allow you to enable supposed non-compatible addons. Most addons still work and you can report those that don't.

 

[Bosvark@]

will wait for the proper release before I give this a try.

 

[iBite]

This is great news... funny thought is: Soon we'll be hiring Game Developers to create our corporate customer zone websites

 

[Carbon_Fibre]

I have been playing around with these betas but the lack of addon support has kept me from using them full time.

+1

 

[burn]

Install the Add-on Compatibility Reporter, it allow you to enable supposed non-compatible addons. Most addons still work and you can report those that don't.

Thanks, will give it a try.

 

[ndlovue6]

chrome ftw

 

[Carbon_Fibre]

chrome ftw

I don't think I'll ever switch from FF. My Bookmarks toolbar is so brilliantly set up with RSS Feeds from about 30 sites and my favourite bookmarks. I see Chrome now has a bookmarks sync add on, but the standard browser doesn't seem to work with RSS feeds. Maybe it needs an add-on. That's stupid.

 

[Viva]

I see Chrome now has a bookmarks sync add on

The Bookmark sync, together with AutoFill, Extensions, Themes and Preferences sync, is actually build in. It works really well for me.

I'm wondering how long it will be before Chrome gets hardware acceleration is the stable release. Hardware acceleration seems to be the new 'thing'.

 

[Creag]

Looking fwd to seeing the final product

 

[reddevilandy10]

Beta 5 is horrible compared to Beta 4... Minefield 4.0b6pre is somewhat faster but still nowhere close to 4.0b4... It's getting there though!!!