Wine 1.9.3 Adds More Shader Model 4 Instructions, Firefox 44-Based Gecko Engine | Linux Today

Wine 1.9.3 Adds More Shader Model 4 Instructions, Firefox 44-Based Gecko Engine

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Marius Nestor
Feb 5, 2016

Among the big new features implemented in Wine 1.9.3, we can mention the rebase of the Gecko engine on the latest Mozilla Firefox 44.0 web browser, JSON support in JavaScript, the addition of more write support in WebServices, along with extra Shader Model 4 instructions, and improvements to DirectWrite’s line breaking.

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Marius Nestor

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