Why is firefox 4 not HW accelerated?

Posted by acidzombie24 on Super User See other posts from Super User or by acidzombie24
Published on 2011-03-19T05:41:24Z Indexed on 2011/03/19 8:12 UTC
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At first i thought it was my computer but then i tried chrome. Why isnt firefox not hardware accelerated? The first screenshot shows chrome at 23% usage. The 2nd shows 59%. I have 2 cpus which is why it isnt 100% usage. The game pictured is biolab

chrome Firefox


Heres the text for about:support

Application Basics

    Name
    Firefox

    Version
    4.0

    User Agent
    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

    Profile Directory

      Open Containing Folder

    Enabled Plugins

      about:plugins

    Build Configuration

      about:buildconfig

Extensions

    Name

    Version

    Enabled

    ID

Modified Preferences

  Name

  Value

    accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar
    0

    browser.places.importBookmarksHTML
    false

    browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion
    2

    browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID
    20110303194838

    browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone
    rv:2.0

    extensions.lastAppVersion
    4.0

    gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled
    true

    network.cookie.prefsMigrated
    true

    places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages
    127602

    privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs
    true

Graphics

    Adapter Description
    Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family

    Vendor ID
    8086

    Device ID
    2a42

    Adapter RAM
    Unknown

    Adapter Drivers
    igdumd64 igd10umd64 igdumdx32 igd10umd32

    Driver Version
    8.15.10.2202

    Driver Date
    8-25-2010

    Direct2D Enabled
    true

    DirectWrite Enabled
    true (6.1.7600.16385, font cache n/a)

    WebGL Renderer
    Google Inc. -- ANGLE -- OpenGL ES 2.0 (ANGLE 0.0.0.541)

    GPU Accelerated Windows
    1/1 Direct3D 10

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