Firefox hopes to one-up IE with fast graphics

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Tue, 11/24/2009 - 6:00am

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.



 

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