Comments on: Firefox 3.7 Alpha 3 Released

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:48:06 +0000

That’s because it is not there in Firefox 3.6. The feature is added to Firefox 3.7

By: Luc

Luc — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:45:24 +0000

1. Go to about:config
2. Click through the warning, if necessary
3. Enter ‘render’ in the ‘Filter’ box
4. Double-click on ‘gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled’ to set it to true
5. Double click on ‘mozilla.widget.render-mode’, set the value to 6
6. Restart

They is no gfx.font_rendering.directwrite on my firefox 3.6

Smell like bullshit here

By: turo62

turo62 — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:23:02 +0000

Firefox 3.7 alpha 3 seems very fast without the special activation of Direct2D , Are you saying it will be even faster with Direct2D enabled? I have windows XP. Is this enough or do I really need Windows 7 for this Direct2D?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:45:51 +0000

It is not ugly, the fonts are rendering differently, but it’s not ugly.

Font rendering is a constant annoyance for me as a web developer as all platforms make a website look different. Mac doesn’t render like Linux, which doesn’t render like Windows.

I’ve been tired of Windows bludgeoning every font squarely into the pixel or sub-pixel grid with the delicacy of a brick going through a window. There is no platform that does a better job of making all fonts look the freaking same.

Direct write doesn’t go as far as I’d like it to, but it does bring definite and substantial improvements to Windows font rendering.

Of course it will make some sites look different to what we’re used to, but when authors get used to designing for it things will be better.

By: LaFi

LaFi — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:44:48 +0000

With the Direct 2D rendering enabled, the answer is no. Alpha 4 has been released and it is still suffering from numerous glitches, crashes, and freezes resulting from the Direct 2D implementation.

By: ramooonas

ramooonas — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:37:28 +0000

Yes, but it is only my opinion.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:33:28 +0000

what do you mean by ugly? The rendering of the sidebar links?

By: ramooonas

ramooonas — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:02:09 +0000

With enabled Direct2D rendering this page looks ugly (check here http://goo.gl/ykIo)

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:45:58 +0000

Yeah…Its really cool dude..!

By: Bob Smith

Bob Smith — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:30:00 +0000

Yep it is very stable on my xp. And it is heck’a fast . But the start up time is the same.

By: Crodol

Crodol — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:25:45 +0000

Has anyone tried 3.7 yet? Is it reasonable stable? Any differences to 3.6?