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On Windows Vista and 7, Firefox 4 uses the same rendering engine (Direct3D/Direct2D/DirectWrite) that IE does.
by sid0 16y ago
On Windows Vista and 7, Firefox 4 uses the same rendering engine (Direct3D/Direct2D/DirectWrite) that IE does.
- Lennie 16y agoEven with hardware acceleration in IE9 and Firefox 4 enabled, Firefox 4 is still faster than IE9: http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/460/ http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/460/
- kenjackson 16y agoUnlike on OSX, IE can only use publicly disclosed APIs. Anything IE can do, Firefox can also do in Windows. On OSX Safari can, in theory, access acceleration that no one else can. Although I don't know if they do.