Engadget http://www.engadget.com Engadget http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif Engadget http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[WebCL scores first demos, GPU accelerated apps headed to your browser]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/06/webcl-scores-first-demos-gpu-accelerated-apps-headed-to-your-br/http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/06/webcl-scores-first-demos-gpu-accelerated-apps-headed-to-your-br/http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/06/webcl-scores-first-demos-gpu-accelerated-apps-headed-to-your-br/#comments WebCL Look, WebGL is great and everything but, in the era of general-purpose GPU computing, we know our 3D chips are capable of much more than just pushing pixels. WebCL is a new standard that brings OpenCL processing to the browser, leveraging the power of your graphics card to perform complex computations. Samsung and Nokia have both released prototype plug-ins, with Sammy's running exclusively in Safari on OS X using NVIDIA chips and Nokia focusing on the 32-bit Windows version of Firefox 4 and AMD GPUs. At the moment, the young technology doesn't offer much to the average user, but demos (after the break) show just how much faster OpenCL can be than traditional JavaScript -- more than 10-times quicker on some tests. Let the countdown to Folding@Home the Web App begin -- we're starting a pool now.

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WebCL scores first demos, GPU accelerated apps headed to your browser originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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NVIDIA 3D Vision machines get 3D YouTube video support on Firefox originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 May 2011 16:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>3D3D video3dVideoFirefox 4Firefox4GeForceGeForce GPUGeforceGpuHTML5MozillaMozilla FirefoxMozilla Firefox 4MozillaFirefoxMozillaFirefox4NVIDIANVIDIA 3D visionNVIDIA 3D Vision YouTube suppostNVIDIA GeForceNvidia3dVisionNvidia3dVisionYoutubeSuppostNvidiaGeforcevideoYoutubeYouTube 3DYoutube3dThu, 26 May 2011 16:02:00 EST<![CDATA[Firefox 4 for Android launched, ready to Sync and speed up your browsing]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/29/firefox-4-for-android-launched-ready-to-sync-and-speed-up-your/http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/29/firefox-4-for-android-launched-ready-to-sync-and-speed-up-your/http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/29/firefox-4-for-android-launched-ready-to-sync-and-speed-up-your/#comments It was a release candidate just about a week ago and today it's all ready to go. Firefox 4 for Android has just been released from the Mozilla labs and is now prowling the mobile internet. You can get yours at the Android Market, in no less than 10 languages, though there'll be no Flash playback. Still, tabbed browsing, extreme customizability, and bookmark / tab / history coordination between desktop and mobile (via Firefox Sync) are all nice to have, as is the promised threefold improvement in speed over the stock Android browser. Pretty nice list of improvements for some freebie software, wouldn't you say?

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Firefox 4 for Android launched, ready to Sync and speed up your browsing originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Update: Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs has the final stats for the first 24 hours and it's actually even higher than we thought: 7.1 million downloads around the globe. That's in addition to three million users already running the release candidate for Firefox 4, which turned into the final release. Good work!

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Firefox 4 clocks up 7.1 million downloads within first 24 hours, fails to beat Firefox 3 record (updated) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Firefox 4 is officially released, how are you liking it? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The official launch day may still be tomorrow, but those not willing to wait can now grab the final version of Firefox 4 for Windows, Mac OS X or Linux straight from Mozilla's FTP server. That follows a last minute RC2 revision that was just released on Saturday, which has presumably been all but unchanged for the now final version. Hit up the appropriate link below to start downloading -- just try to act a little bit surprised if anyone tells you about it tomorrow.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Firefox 4 slips out ahead of tomorrow's official release originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Firefox 4 to be released on March 22nd, download statisticians ready their calculators originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Firefox 4 for mobile goes beta on Android and Maemo originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Firefox 4 Beta 5 brings GPU acceleration for Windows originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Firefox Tab Candy groups your tabs, but that's just for starters (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>alphaaza raskinAzaRaskinbrowsercandycssfffirefoxfirefox 4Firefox4htmljavascriptmozillaorganizationorganizerstackstackstabtab candytab grouptab groupstab managementtab managerTabCandyTabGroupTabGroupsTabManagementTabManagertabsvideoweb browserWebBrowserMon, 26 Jul 2010 04:14:00 EST<![CDATA[Firefox 4 Beta 1 now available for download]]>http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/06/firefox-4-beta-1-now-available-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/06/firefox-4-beta-1-now-available-for-download/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/06/firefox-4-beta-1-now-available-for-download/#comments Whoa, Nelly! Is that a Firefox 4 download button we're looking at? Why yes... yes it is! We can't think of a much better way to wrap up one's workday than by finding out that Mozilla's own Firefox browser has finally made the official leap to 4.0, with Beta 1 going live for the adoring public today. It's ready to be sucked down and installed for those with Windows, Linux and OS X-based machines, and the changelog itself is far too lengthy for this space (though it's linked below for your perusal). You'll obviously notice an overhauled look hitting you front and center, with a new add-on manager, support for the new WebM format, improved privacy settings and crash protection headlining the "big chart o' features." Give 'er a download and toss your thoughts on the new build down in comments below, cool?

P.S. - Be warned that this may very well not work with your stable of add-ons right away, so we'd keep that stable 3.x.x build installed as a backup!

Firefox 4 Beta 1 now available for download originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mozilla shares tentative vision for Firefox 4 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 10 May 2010 22:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>background updatesBackgroundUpdatesbrowserbrowsersCSS3FirefoxFirefox 4Firefox 4.0Firefox SyncFirefox4Firefox4.0FirefoxSyncgeolocationHTML5Mike BeltznerMikeBeltznermozillamozilla FirefoxMozilla WeaveMozillaFirefoxMozillaWeavemulti touchmulti-touchmultitouchUIuser interfaceUserInterfacewebweb browserweb browsersWebBrowserWebBrowsersMon, 10 May 2010 22:48:00 EST<![CDATA[Firefox 4 Windows mockup provides 5 UI hints of things to come]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/firefox-4-windows-mockup-provides-5-ui-hints-of-things-to-come/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/firefox-4-windows-mockup-provides-5-ui-hints-of-things-to-come/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/firefox-4-windows-mockup-provides-5-ui-hints-of-things-to-come/#comments Want a hint as to where Firefox will go next? As a product visual designer at Mozilla, Stephen Horlander is the kind of guy who can make things happen -- so when he shares updates and mockups on Firefox 4's user interface, we tend to pay attention. He outlines five portions of a screenshot teaser that'll get a much cleaner, more streamlined facelift. Our favorite takeaway is the singular app button for menu navigation. Several variations are shown, but if you ask us, we're currently fond of the setup above. As Horlander notes, the design's in constant flux, but what we're seeing is certainly promising.

Firefox 4 Windows mockup provides 5 UI hints of things to come originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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