Firefox 4 Beta 9 Gives Short Shrift to Linux Users (PCWorld)
Firefox 4 Beta 9 Gives Short Shrift to Linux Users (PCWorld)
[Announcements] Posted Jan 18, 2011 18:33 UTC (Tue) by ris
PCWorld looks
at the lack of hardware acceleration in the Linux version of the latest
Firefox beta. ""We tried enabling OpenGL on Linux, and discovered
that most Linux drivers are so disastrously buggy (think 'crash the X
server at the drop of a hat, and paint incorrectly the rest of the time'
buggy) that we had to disable it for now," wrote Mozilla developer Boris
Zbarsky Friday in a comment on the Mozilla
Hacks developer blog. "Heck, we're even disabling WebGL for most Linux
drivers, last I checked."
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