Any way to make firefox retina ready?

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iLikeTurtles!

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i use firefox, its my main browser. also love the fact i can add skins to it.

though text and stuff on it looks horriable, readable but not the way to enjoy the retina screen.

anyway way to make it look retina? or atleast the text

it effects every site, from macrumors to facebook
 
pgiguere1

pgiguere1

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May 28, 2009
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Download the latest nightly build: http://nightly.mozilla.org/

Type "about:config" in the address bar and hit Return.

Locate "layers.acceleration.disabled" and set it to true.

Note: It has been reported by another user that this no longer works with the latest nightly build. I haven't been able to confirm, but if it's the case, you can access all recent nightly builds here, just download a build from around a week ago and you should be fine.
 
hughw

hughw

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Jan 15, 2012
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Quote from the bugzilla bug
" Peter Hollo 2012-08-15 06:08:35 PDT

Confirmed - the last two Nightlies have broken HiDPI support.
@Carsten, If you grab the .dmg from two nights ago it's still nice and crisp:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2012-08-13-03-05-32-mozilla-central/"
 
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Adidas Addict

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pgiguere1 said:
Download the latest nightly build: http://nightly.mozilla.org/

Type "about:config" in the address bar and hit Return.

Locate "layers.acceleration.disabled" and set it to true.

Note: It has been reported by another user that this no longer works with the latest nightly build. I haven't been able to confirm, but if it's the case, you can access all recent nightly builds here, just download a build from around a week ago and you should be fine.
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hughw said:
Quote from the bugzilla bug
" Peter Hollo 2012-08-15 06:08:35 PDT

Confirmed - the last two Nightlies have broken HiDPI support.
@Carsten, If you grab the .dmg from two nights ago it's still nice and crisp:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2012-08-13-03-05-32-mozilla-central/"
Click to expand...

Thanks guys, worked a treat.:)
 
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Outkast27

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Feb 16, 2012
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hughw said:
Quote from the bugzilla bug
" Peter Hollo 2012-08-15 06:08:35 PDT

Confirmed - the last two Nightlies have broken HiDPI support.
@Carsten, If you grab the .dmg from two nights ago it's still nice and crisp:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2012-08-13-03-05-32-mozilla-central/"
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Link NOT FOUND.
 
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Capt T

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Mar 20, 2010
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pgiguere1 said:
Download the latest nightly build: http://nightly.mozilla.org/

Type "about:config" in the address bar and hit Return.

Locate "layers.acceleration.disabled" and set it to true.

Note: It has been reported by another user that this no longer works with the latest nightly build. I haven't been able to confirm, but if it's the case, you can access all recent nightly builds here, just download a build from around a week ago and you should be fine.
Click to expand...
hughw said:
Quote from the bugzilla bug
" Peter Hollo 2012-08-15 06:08:35 PDT

Confirmed - the last two Nightlies have broken HiDPI support.
@Carsten, If you grab the .dmg from two nights ago it's still nice and crisp:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2012-08-13-03-05-32-mozilla-central/"
Click to expand...
Thanks! Looks great now.
 
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stevelam

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Nov 4, 2010
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honestly are people actually using firefox on the rmbp? its not gpu accelerated and is extremely slow right now. chrome is faster and even using that is relatively slow since its also not properly retina optimized. i hate safari but its the only optimized browser for the RMBP right now which is very unfortunate.
 
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JDeezy808

macrumors newbie
Sep 18, 2012
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Chrome works great. Even if its not optimized. Safari does have its benefits though, to include multi-touch panning from page to page, but so does chrome... its just not anywhere near as fancy :p
 
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gokart mozart

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Jun 20, 2011
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stevelam said:
honestly are people actually using firefox on the rmbp? its not gpu accelerated and is extremely slow right now. chrome is faster and even using that is relatively slow since its also not properly retina optimized. i hate safari but its the only optimized browser for the RMBP right now which is very unfortunate.
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Funny enough, in my real world experience, Chrome Canary has been a lot faster for me than Safari has. Not sure if they've implemented hardware acceleration yet, but there you have it. It is buggier with flash and shockwave applications, though, that is for sure.
 
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