Mon 23 Aug 2010
http://www.theinquirer.net
A HOST OF GOODIES have been announced by Mozilla in the beta 4 version of Firefox 4, including GPU acceleration.
The open source software outfit revealed the updates in its online minutes report and set a release date for this next beta version of next Monday. The beta bump comes a mere couple of weeks after multi-touch support was addressed in beta 3 for “intuitive fun and browsing”, no less.
Hardware GPU acceleration is being coded into nearly every web browser so this announcement isn’t too much of a surprise.
“Hardware acceleration of video and other HTML and SVG content, as well as user interface, on by default for compatible hardware on all Tier-1 desktop and mobile platforms,” blogged the Mozzarella Firebadger 4 development team. (more…)