Firefox 4 beta 4 due Monday with GPU acceleration, tab sets

[kazuya]

Mozilla is preparing to unload yet another beta build of Firefox 4. Due this coming Monday, the update adds hardware-accelerated graphics and tab sets, formerly known as tab candy. The browser's built-in graphics acceleration will use Windows' Direct2D, but it won't be enabled by default. Flipping the switch should only take a minute, though:

1. Enter about:config in the address bar and click through the warning
2. Enter gfx.font in the 'Filter' box
3. Double-click on gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled to set it to true
4. Below this, right click and select New > Integer to add a pref setting
5. Enter mozilla.widget.render-mode for the preference name, 6 for the value
6. Restart

Firefox 4 beta 4 due Monday with GPU acceleration, tab sets - TechSpot News

[dju]

Looks like the GPU acceleration may speed things up on some computers where for example scrolling trough the web shutters when there is a lot of flash and other content on.