Not quite s promised, Mozilla released it's fourth Beta of it's new Firefox 4.0 browser. The Beta was supposed to be released yesterday but had to be delayed after a couple of bugs were discovered. To download the new beta click here. The new version offers several upgrades. Most notable is a new hardware acceleration rendering feature which claims to harness the power of your video card to more quickly display graphics and text. At this point, Mozilla is trying to play catch up to Google's Chrome which has established a reputation as the fastest browser on the market. This new feature is turned off by default. Reason being that Mozilla is afraid that this feature may not be ready for prime time. But to turn on this feature is relatively easy and painless. Here's what you need to do to turn on this feature:
1. Type "about:config" in the address bar.
2. In the search bar type in "mozilla.widget.render-mode." Set the value to 6.
3. Next, go back to the search bar and type in "gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled." Set the value to True.
That's it. To see what changes you made you can always type "about:support" in the address bar.
Let us know what you think of this new feature.
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