Windows 7 features called Direct2D and DirectWrite will speed up Internet Explorer 9 performance. But Firefox hopes it might retool for the same benefit first. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

The next-next generation of the Mozilla Foundation's popular web browser - Firefox 3.7 - is set to get a significant speed boost on Windows systems thanks to Direct2D support. This plan appears to be ...

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 ...

As well as support for Google's WebM video codec, the latest beta of Firefox introduces Direct2D acceleration on Windows platforms. Released today, Firefox 4 Beta 4 is the first beta release to ...

With a few about:config tweaks, you can turn on Firefox's built-in hardware acceleration and improve both graphical performance and the look of your fonts. If you have a decent graphics card (DirectX ...

Windows 8 takes three of the APIs introduced in Windows 7—Direct3D 11, DirectWrite, and Direct2D—and makes them even faster. Applications that use these APIs will be able to take advantage of some ...

Is not really surprising that now Firefox jumps on the bandwagon of the Direct2D acceleration that will offload processing to the GPU. Last month IE9 was announced with Direct2D/3D acceleration. It ...