Users can download Firefox 4 for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux from Mozilla's site. "Microsoft, stop making bull**** claims about hardware acceleration," Dotzler titled a post to his personal blog two weeks ago. Mozilla technology evangelist Asa Dotzler was even more blunt. In a post to his personal blog, O'Callahan said, "Microsoft's PR about 'full hardware acceleration' is a myth." "Microsoft's message that IE9 is the apex of what a browser can do with the GPU is nonsense," said Robert O'Callahan, a New Zealand employee of Novell who works full time on Mozilla's graphics infrastructure. Some Mozilla developers have used stronger words to describe Microsoft's argument that IE9 is the best browser on Windows. The time has come to stop focusing on lowest common denominator, and to really push what's possible with innovations like full hardware acceleration." "The browser is only as good as the operating system it runs on and a browser running on a ten-year-old operating system tethers the Web to the past. "The developer community has been vocal that they want to push the Web forward," a Microsoft spokesman said in an e-mail. Microsoft today again defended that decision. IE9 runs only on Windows Vista and Windows 7. The latter has touted IE9 as the only browser to "fully hardware accelerate the entire Web platform," while Mozilla has criticized its rival for abandoning Windows XP users. Hardware acceleration has become a point of contention between Mozilla and Microsoft. įirefox 4 features a new tab manager, dubbed "Panorama," boasts an overhauled interface that resembles Chrome's minimalist design, and supports GPU acceleration to boost page composition speeds. On March 14, Microsoft launched the final version of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9). Mozilla's Firefox 4 was the second major upgrade shipped by browser makers in just over a week. The code designated as final today was identical to Firefox 4 Release Candidate 2 (RC2), a last-minute update that Mozilla issued last Friday. Firefox 4 was originally scheduled to ship last November, but bugs and other delays forced it to announce in October that it would instead wrap up development early this year. Tuesday's release marked the end of more than a year of development by Mozilla, which issued the first "alpha" edition of the browser in February 2010.
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