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Default [engadget] Programmer adds IE 9 graphics acceleration to Firefox
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Not so fast, Internet Explorer! We know that you have great things in the works for IE 9 -- including Direct2D GPU acceleration, the 2D / vector graphics API that we first laid eyes on in Windows 7. And believe us, that got our attention -- as well as the attention of Mozilla programmer Bas Schouten. It seems that over the weekend, the young man successfully loaded Direct2D support into an alpha build of Firefox 3.7 -- just days you announced its inclusion in the next version of your web browser. "Things are looking very promising for Direct2D" and Firefox, said Schouten, although "older PCs with pre-D3D10 graphics cards and WDDM 1.0 drivers will not show significant improvements." And we thought that accelerometer support was wild!
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/25/p...on-to-firefox/
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competition; giving a reason to support innovation.

whole software is moving fast now since there is someone to slap M$ in the ass to get them moving.
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Too bad the tabs in chrome are far superior. I never could get firefox's tabs close to the way I wanted them.
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How is this with licensing? Can they do that?
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How is this with licensing? Can they do that?
All Mozilla needs to do to implement this feature in Firefox is use an API...assuming it's publicly documented, there's no reason why there would be restrictions on use.

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Not only that, but IE is free.
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The title pisses me off. The only thing Direct2D has to do with IE is that both of them are from Microsoft.
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