IE9 will tap Windows Vista and Windows 7 PCs’ graphics processors to speed up rendering, assembling and displaying pages. Microsoft has touted the technique, called “hardware acceleration,” since it announced IE9 almost a year ago. IE9 is the only browser to use what he called “full hardware acceleration” Microsoft has said IE9 won’t run on XP, with hardware acceleration one of the reasons for not adding support for Windows 7’s Direct2D API to Windows XP. Mozilla’s Firefox 4 will rely on hardware acceleration to increase performance on Windows Vista.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2125954/browser-makers-trade-barbs-over-speed-moves.html