{"id":3003,"date":"2010-08-11T08:18:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T07:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3003-firefox-4-as-psychedelic-as-ie9-with-direct2d-enabled.html"},"modified":"2010-08-11T08:18:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T07:18:41","slug":"firefox-4-as-psychedelic-as-ie9-with-direct2d-enabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3003-firefox-4-as-psychedelic-as-ie9-with-direct2d-enabled.html","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 4 as Psychedelic as IE9 with Direct2D enabled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IE9 is much faster than Firefox 4 beta at the Psychedelic test on the <a href=\"http:\/\/ie.microsoft.com\/testdrive\/Performance\/PsychedelicBrowsing\/\" target=\"_blank\">testdrive<\/a> site, which demonstrates drawing fast graphics to the Canvas element. That said, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/2958-internet-explorer-9-preview-gets-to-95-on-acid-3.html\/comment-page-1#comment-225985\" target=\"_blank\">comment to an earlier post<\/a> prompted me to try enabling Direct2D in Firefox 4.<\/p>\n<p>As you would expect, the difference is dramatic. Here\u2019s the before and after:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/image10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/image_thumb10.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/image11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/image_thumb11.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>How about IE9?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/image12.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/image_thumb12.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Really nothing in it. It\u2019s all about hardware-accelerated graphics.<\/p>\n<p>Direct2D is not enabled by default (currently), so it is not unreasonable for Microsoft to show the slower speed in its published comparison; but worth noting that the issue is easily fixed, presuming Firefox 4 is stable in this mode.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to enable Direct2D in Firefox 4, the how-to is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.basschouten.com\/blog1.php\/2010\/03\/02\/presenting-direct2d-hardware-acceleratio\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IE9 is much faster than Firefox 4 beta at the Psychedelic test on the testdrive site, which demonstrates drawing fast graphics to the Canvas element. That said, a comment to an earlier post prompted me to try enabling Direct2D in Firefox 4. As you would expect, the difference is dramatic. Here\u2019s the before and after: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3003-firefox-4-as-psychedelic-as-ie9-with-direct2d-enabled.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Firefox 4 as Psychedelic as IE9 with Direct2D enabled<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[331,389,462,494],"class_list":["post-3003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-directx","tag-firefox","tag-html-5","tag-internet-explorer-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}