Product Reviews Net (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Mozilla has begun a race, as they want their Firefox 3.7 browser to beat Microsoft’s IE9 for inserting Direct2D graphics support. Both companies are working very hard, and it could go either way. If I were a betting man, I would go with Firefox offering the support first. According to The Register, Bas Schouten, a programmer [...]
The Register (Free subscription) | yesterday
A generous dash of sugar in your sweet potato mash Praise be - Mozilla has spun out yet another beta for Firefox 3.6, the next iteration of the outfit's popular browser, just in time for Thanksgiving.…
Hexus (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Mozilla foundation's Firefox team have released some benchmarks showing some of their own hardware-accelerated browser tech.
OS News (Free subscription) | yesterday
A few days ago, we heard about Microsoft planning to include Direct2D acceleration in the yet-to-come IE9, thus leveraging today's poweful GPUs to render web content. Mozilla didn't fall behind: last Sunday, Firefox hacker Bas Schouten revealed a build of Firefox 3.7 with built-in Direct2D acceleration on his blog. His performance tests claim that popular sites like Facebook and Twitter render twice...
Unit1 (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Filed under: Internet, Microsoft, Mozilla, Browsers Hot on the heels of the announcement that IE9 would use Direct2D to improve its rendering performance, Firefox have stated their intent to do the same — and sooner! In a a tweet, Chris Blizzard, an employee of Mozilla, said that Firefox would include Direct2D support — and he bet [...]
Computerworld UK (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The mechanism behind a click-jacking attack that was spread by luring in Facebook users with a link to a porn site that has the potential to do more damage than just embarrassing those who fall for it.
DungZ (Free subscription) | yesterday
Just the previous week, Microsoft displayed the browser technology which helps Internet Explorer in diving into the competition. The question that arises is regarding the text using interfaces called ‘DirectWrite’ and ‘Direct2D’ and hardware-accelerated graphics that offers a simple way of using computing power of graphics cards. They are inbuilt onto Windows 7 and Microsoft...
Adobe Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Alexa - Web Discovery Machine (Free subscription) | yesterday
I am happy to report that you can now download an Alexa toolbar for Firefox with the same look and feel as the toolbar for IE. Previously, the Alexa Toolbar for Firefox, nicknamed "Sparky", displayed data in the status bar of your browser. Sparky is useful for quickly checking how popular a site is without adding an extra row of buttons to your browser, and it will continue to be available...
DV Hardware (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Last week Microsoft unveiled IE9 is getting GPU acceleration , and a couple of days ago Firefox developer Bas Schouten revealed on his blog that Firefox will start implementing this feature as well. A while ago I started my investigation into Direct2D usage in firefox (see bug 527707). Since then we've made significant progress and are now able to present a Firefox browser completely rendered using...
Later On (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
I’m blogging this from my laptop, which still had Mozilla Firefox installed. I’m amazed at how quickly I’ve become so accustomed to Google Chrome as my browser that Firefox looked just weird: unfamiliar, cluttered, and antique design. I immediately downloaded the Developer version of Chrome (so I can install extensions), and now I’m going through [...]
Lifehacker (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Windows/Mac/Linux: Nobody told Mozilla's developers it's a day off. They've just pushed out a fourth beta of Firefox 3.6, with more than 100 fixes from the last beta and more add-on security and compatibility. There's no reason not to grab this beta if you're a bleeding-edge Firefox fan, as it doesn't seem to remove any features or support (as its predecessor did ), and Mozilla notes that more than...
DV Hardware (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Mozilla announced Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 is now available for download, users interested in testing this new version can download it over here . Here's a list of the new features: (New in this version) Support for the HTML5 File API A change to how third-party software integrates with Firefox to increase stability. The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times. A mechanism to prevent...
gHacks (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The Mozilla developers have released a total of three beta versions of the upcoming web browser Firefox 3.6 in November so far. The latest version Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 was just released and is now available for download at the official Mozilla website and through the “check for updates” option in the Firefox web browser [...]
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | yesterday
Earlier this morning, Mozilla released the fourth beta version of Firefox 3.6 . Besides over 140 bug fixes , the new beta also introduces support for HTML5's local file handling API. This feature gives web apps the ability to access and handle local files selected by the user. A photo site that implements this feature can now work with images locally, for example. You don't have to upload your images...
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