You are as clueless as you accuse the parent poster to be. XPCOM is not used for plug-in, NPAPI is. It's the same API that was used in the Netscape days. Even MS used to use that API for early versions of IE before they moved to ActiveX in a ploy to hurt Netscape on plugin compatibility.

You are confusing WebGL with acceleration of the web page rendering done in IE, FF and Chrome. They are completely different things. WebGL is an API web devs can use to draw 3D stuff.

Hardware acceleration is all done under the hood and doesn't use WebGL (it uses DirectX or OpenGL and is not called in any way by the web developer.

I had some GUI issues when I used it with my FF3.6 profile. I created a new profile and imported the old one's bookmarks and everything worked.

To create a new profile, run it from the command line like this:

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe -profilemanager

This is not true. FF4 uses DirectX9 on XP to accelerate the compositing / rendering of web content.

The only time when it uses software rendering is when your graphics drivers are not recent enough, and that's true for both XP and Win Vista / 7. the one thing Vista and 7 have over XP is support DirectWrite, which is part of DirectX 10 so of course, doesn't work on XP.

The download links are still pointing to beta 7.
https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

To my knowledge, the name of the bank was not revealed. Where did you read that it was about Citibank?

Score!

I loved that video :)

There have been many leaks (just read the article this post links to to find out) about other governments and corporations in other countries. You're not hearing about the because the US based media doesn't cover them.

Just because they released stuff that target the US Government doesn't mean they are anti US. It just means than they got a lot of leaks from that country... and/or that the US has a lot of bad things to hide.

I hope this is about Goldman Sachs!

Too bad the numbers you put in your post don't have any ground in reality. Like you 14 trillion deficit for social Security:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/business/economy/25social.html?_r=1

"Create job abd raise the standard of living in both countries".

This statement is only true if you count the rich getting richer in the US. I fail to see how losing your middle class income job to outsourcing raises your stadard of living.

You can tear out tabs in FF like the rest of those browsers.

"or there is some kind of flash-player type add-on made for Firefox to support h264"

Flash already uses the h.264 codec for video so there is no need for anything more. And you won't have to switch to another browser because as long as there is no universal codec standard accross browsers, sites like YouTube will continue to use Flash, at least as a fallback method.