Trying out Firefox 4
Trying out Firefox 4
Posted Jul 8, 2010 23:48 UTC (Thu) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224)In reply to: Trying out Firefox 4 by Tet
Parent article: Trying out Firefox 4
In think in this case, they are trying to make use of the accelerated rendering mechanisms available, and they chose to do DirectX first due to resource availability. See QotW from a couple of weeks ago:
http://lwn.net/Articles/392253/
This is just an external persons view - I have no direct knowledge.