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Firefox GPU acceleration snaps at Microsoft's heels

by Sylvie Barak on 26 November 2009, 09:09

Tags: Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Mozilla

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Benchpressing

The scores were apparently attained using a system based on a Core i7 920 with Radeon HD4850 Graphics and can be seen below:

 

 

Schouten added that "although the investigation and implementation are still in an early stage, we can conclude that things are looking very promising for Direct2D."

It's unclear when the GPU accelerated browser will get its official launch, but Schouten did offer "a test build for those of you running Windows 7 or an updated version of Vista!" The cheeky monkey.

Or should that be, sly fox?

 


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Posted by Methanoid - Thu 26 Nov 2009 10:01
Is GPU assistance really needed? Surely the slow thing here isnt page rendering but our internet connections? Still, always pleased to see Firefox getting a new thing (especially if the enemy is).

I'm actually using IE now trying the new Xmarks for IE but have to say the 'Fox is best!
Posted by semo - Thu 26 Nov 2009 13:01
well after you've downloaded all the content, you need to compile, run and display it. you don't want that slowing you down after your slow connections has done its bit, do you?
Posted by shaithis - Thu 26 Nov 2009 13:33
As with the flash stuff, this is probably for netbooks and other lower power devices with integrated GPU chipsets.
Posted by andrep - Thu 26 Nov 2009 14:03
A friend in the games industry told me that we're going to see a spree of big title in-browser games next year, because EA's purchase of Playfish has caused an all-out war to win in the casual gaming space.
Posted by Steve - Thu 26 Nov 2009 15:17
Font rendering and visual transforms/filters don't come for free. The more you can hardware accelerate the better.

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