If Firefox is misbehaving, there's a chance its Hardware Acceleration feature is causing problems. Weblog Tweaking with Vishal recommends turning it off to solve problems with startup times, blurry ...

Firefox 4 beta 4 is expected to hit download servers on Monday, and this latest build will feature hardware acceleration - although if you want to use it, you'll have to switch it on. As of today the ...

Mozilla has urged users to update their graphics cards’ drivers if they want to take advantage of Firefox 4’s hardware acceleration. Last Friday, Benoit Jacob, who works on Mozilla’s platform ...

Some Windows users will be able to try a Direct2D-accelerated version of Firefox--if they manually switch it on. Also coming: tab candy. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

With new media gaming technology and streaming video websites, browsers will be put under more and more strain in the future. Mozilla is looking to tackle this issue by developing a Direct2D feature ...

Mozilla has released the fourth beta for the upcoming Firefox 4 browser. The latest pre-release version of Firefox 4 brings several new features including a new tab-organization tool, hardware ...

The launch of Firefox 4 got closer on Tuesday, with the release of its fifth beta. This latest round is the last planned beta, and features graphics hardware acceleration, a new audio API, and support ...

On Monday, Mozilla will be releasing the latest beta of its new Firefox 4 beta 4, which will bring Windows hardware acceleration and a major interface change called tab sets. The tab sets, formerly ...

Since November of last year, one of Microsoft's big themes for Internet Explorer 9 has been "graphics hardware acceleration" using Windows DirectX. Just last week, Mozilla's Firefox 4 beta turned on ...

Minefield is the name given to nightly builds of Firefox Much love has been thrown in Google Chrome’s direction of late, not least of which because, well, it’s quite snappy. But let’s not forget the ...

When Mozilla finally releases Firefox 4.0 for OS X, Mac users might notice that browsing has gotten quite a bit snappier for them, as it now looks as if hardware acceleration may, at long last, be ...

Browser betas, like puberty, can be a confusing time. Sure, we're eager to be getting new functionality, but all the crashes and compatibility breaks and unrequited crushes can be a bit tough to ...