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January 10th, 2011, 11:07 AM
One of the new features of Firefox 4 is graphics hardware acceleration. This, along with the new layers code, will help improve Firefox performance during things like page rendering and full-screen video.
Firefox’s hardware acceleration interacts with a machine’s graphics hardware via DirectX or OpenGL, depending on platform. These interactions tend to be very sensitive to the graphics environment on the system (e.g., the specific video card(s) on the system, how much VRAM is available, the version of the video driver, the OS version, etc). In fact, there are so many permutations of the relevant factors that we can’t test them all internally. We need help from the community, so we can get exposure on as many unique hardware environments as possible.
http://jagriffin.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/introducting-grafx-bot/
All you need to do is install firefox 4, install a plugin Grafx Bot, and click run tests. it will render about load of tests with and without the new acceleration, and report back any differences. takes about 10 mins.
Firefox’s hardware acceleration interacts with a machine’s graphics hardware via DirectX or OpenGL, depending on platform. These interactions tend to be very sensitive to the graphics environment on the system (e.g., the specific video card(s) on the system, how much VRAM is available, the version of the video driver, the OS version, etc). In fact, there are so many permutations of the relevant factors that we can’t test them all internally. We need help from the community, so we can get exposure on as many unique hardware environments as possible.
http://jagriffin.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/introducting-grafx-bot/
All you need to do is install firefox 4, install a plugin Grafx Bot, and click run tests. it will render about load of tests with and without the new acceleration, and report back any differences. takes about 10 mins.