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Hmmmm.... I wonder how other browser vendors are able to pull it off then? This answer doesn't seem to carry much weight if Firefox and Chrome can do these thi
by msujaws 15y ago
Hmmmm.... I wonder how other browser vendors are able to pull it off then?
This answer doesn't seem to carry much weight if Firefox and Chrome can do these things and still remain secure.
- dangrossman 15y agoThey use OpenGL instead of DirectX for hardware acceleration. Microsoft's obviously not going to do that; using DX plays to their strengths in every possible way, from what their developers and toolchain is already optimized for, to what's already rendering the entire desktop in WinVista/Win7... so it could even mean IE10 on Win8 tablets will be better on battery life than FF/Chrome. I'm not an expert on this, but DX is likely the objectively better choice for hardware acceleration on Windows -- the reason FF/Chrome use OpenGL is because they have to support other platforms IE doesn't, and doing everything twice in OpenGL/DirectX to get the best result on Windows while still supporting Mac/Linux has obvious downsides.
- superuser2 15y agoThe latest version of Firefox does not run on PowerPC (my parents are both still on PowerPC Macs). Mozilla has no financial interest in people buying new Macs.