Any way to make firefox retina ready?

[iLikeTurtles!]

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]

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]

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/"

 

[iLikeTurtles!]

any other alternative?

 

[Adidas Addict]

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.

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/"

Thanks guys, worked a treat.

 

[Outkast27]

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/"

Link NOT FOUND.

 

[hughw]

Link NOT FOUND.

watch out for the quote mark at the end

 

[Outkast27]

watch out for the quote mark at the end

oh , thx! Which link do I click?

 

[iLikeTurtles!]

im confused

 

[Capt T]

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.

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/"

Thanks! Looks great now.

 

[iLikeTurtles!]

Thanks! Looks great now.

what do u download if the new one doesnt work?

 

[brand]

what do u download if the new one doesnt work?

Chrome

 

[Capt T]

what do u download if the new one doesnt work?

This one from a couple of days ago:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2012-08-13-03-05-32-mozilla-central/


Look for this file to download on that page.

firefox-17.0a1.en-US.mac.dmg

Make sure to follow the instructions pgiguere1 posted

 

[stevelam]

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.

 

[gladesmellzgood]

Chrome works wonderful for me but I miss downthemall! That's all I really use Firefox for now anyway.

 

[JDeezy808]

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

 

[gokart mozart]

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.

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.

 

[alyshehata]

Search for an app called retinizer. It's the retina macbook's saver