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Hardware acceleration uses your video card to help render web pages in your browser. Takes some of the load off your CPU.
Jim
Mozilla launches Firefox 4
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New #61
Speeds up some actions, but also saddles you with Microsoft DirectWrite font rendering engine (same thing in IE 9 BTW).
To my eyes DirectWrite font rendering is just wrong. Fonts are all thicker and kerning is tighter so the letters run together. I find it less readable at all distances, so I shut off HW Acceleration to get rid of it. YMMV.
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New #63
Stupid question time... Im running the RC2 and haven't been offered the update, is there meant to be an autoupdate? or do I have to uninstall/reinstall?
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New #66
The HTML5 video support is great (better than I expected), it looks like I won't need to leave the flash player installed on my two guest computers' soon.
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New #67
Can someone provide a link or two of sites that supposedly have blurry fonts?
I have H/W accel enabled and I haven't seen a single blurry font
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New #68
Compared to version 3.6, FF4 is faster. If you ask me, which ever browser you feel at home with, stay with it. IE9 , FF4 and Chrome looks the same with there tabs GUI.
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New #69
It's more hit and miss than anything, esp. now that hardware is more directly used. Now you have to consider issues like "Is my display driver causing the problems? Maybe it needs updated?", "Did I configure the MS clear type settings?" or just the plain old "Is my computer too low spec?". I have to admit that I found reading IE9/FF4 blurry issue threads interesting--
Anyway, my three computers have no problems with FF4, no blurry issue or whatever, at all. So I can't provide any evidence
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