Latest Firefox 4 Beta Enables GPU Acceleration

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Submission + - Latest Firefox 4 Beta Enables GPU Acceleration (mozilla.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @09:19PM

An anonymous reader writes: Beta 5 of Firefox 4 has been released and brings with it Direct2D acceleration enabled by default on Windows Vista and Windows 7, a new audio API to read and write raw audio data within the browser, and HTTP Strict Transport Security. An add-on called Grafx Bot has also been released to assist with GPU acceleration testing. Accelerated compositing is also in progress but is not yet enabled in the beta releases.

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