Although Firefox 3.6 hasn't made it out of beta yet, Mozilla has already made Firefox 3.7 alpha available on its FTP servers. With it comes support for Direct2D rendering, which enables the browser to take advantage of your PC's graphics card to dramatically speed up loading times on complex websites.
Firefox 3.7 alpha is currently codenamed 'Minefield' for obvious reasons (stability, or lack thereof, in particular) and isn't intended for mainstream computer users, but it does give us a glimpse of what the web could look like in the future.
"A while ago I started my investigation into Direct2D usage in Firefox," said Firefox developer Bas Schouten in a post on his blog. "Since then we've made significant progress and are now able to present a Firefox browser completely rendered using Direct2D, making intensive usage of the GPU."
Source for full story: http://www.expertrev...x-37-alpha.html
I'm using it right now and it's awesome! Everything loads so much faster, and it's really stable too. I'm going to ditch chromium and finally come back to firefox.
You can download it here. http://ftp.mozilla.o...y/latest-trunk/