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Re:Firefox 18 Gets Support for Retina Display by masklinn on Sunday September 30, 2012 @03:29AM (#4592294)
> Why is it Firefox's problem if Apple didn't bother to go to the trouble of making non-Retina applications readable on a Retina display?

I'm not sure what they could have done beyond making sure Cocoa's text-rendering routines produce the right "retina" output. Which they do. Firefox (and Chrome) do their own text rendering and rasterizing, as far as OSX can see it they give it a big image to display. Not much OSX can do with that.

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Re:Firefox 18 Gets Support for Retina Display by asadotzler on Sunday September 30, 2012 @03:04PM (#4593731)
they could have not pixel doubled the applications and instead let them be smaller and still crisp.
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Re:Firefox 18 Gets Support for Retina Display by masklinn on Monday October 01, 2012 @07:12AM (#4596273)
Crisp is not very useful when you can't read the text or view the pictures because they're a quarter of their "intended" physical size.
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