Firefox sets goal to include Direct2D support

Posted on Sunday, April 04 2010 @ 4:05 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Mozilla has issued a goal to ship a developer preview version of Firefox with Direct2D support by the end of the second quarter. This new feature should boost Firefox's responsiveness to user interaction.

Here's a look at the other goals for the second quarter:

Shipping a final version of Firefox for Windows with the out-of-process plugins feature that's designed to improve stability by putting Flash Player and other plug-ins in a separate memory area. Out-of-process plug-ins are one aspect of Electrolysis.
Shipping a beta version of Firefox with out-of-process Flash support for Macs using Snow Leopard, aka Mac OS X 10.6.
Building support for the JaegerMonkey technology for faster JavaScript performance to the point where its performance can be tested, and supporting the EcmaScript 5 version of the standard that underlies JavaScript.
Releasing an alpha version of Firefox with support for the Indexed DB local storage database technology.
Turning on the HTML5 parser by default in a beta version, a move that will mean Firefox can decode Web pages written with the new Web page standard under development.

Source: CNET

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