I just read a post about GPU accelerated drawing in Firefox 3.7 (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/kaisellgren).
I gave it a shot:
- Downloading the latest trunk http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... est-trunk/
- Running Firefox in safe mode with parameter -safe-mode
- Enabled gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled from about:config
- Made a new integer mozilla.widget.render-mode to 6
- Restarted Firefox
and voilá! It's drawing everything using my GPU.
I do see some improvements in performance, particularly with Canvas. The text is also quite smooth.
IE 9 is confirmed to have GPU accelerated rendering, too. The web is improving, are you ready?