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Firefox hopes to one-up IE with fast graphics

November 24, 2009
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Stephen Shankland over at cnet writes:

Last week, Microsoft showed off some browser technology that could help Internet Explorer leapfrog the competition. But if Mozilla succeeds in its hope, Microsoft could be playing catch-up instead.
The technology in question is hardware-accelerated graphics and text using interfaces called Direct2D and DirectWrite that provide an easy way to [...]

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Mozilla’s Thunderbird Team looks toward the cloud with Raindrop

November 6, 2009
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For almost all of its existence, Mozilla Messaging has been known for Thunderbird e-mail software with the traditional view that a person’s PC is the center of their computing existence.
Now, though, the Mozilla Foundation subsidiary’s scope is expanding beyond the confines of the computer under your desk or on your lap. In the near term, [...]

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