An alpha build of Firefox 3.7 - the next-next gen browser from the Mozilla Foundation - includes support for Direct2D on Windows 7 and Vista, offloading rendering on to the GPU.

Mozilla is developing a Direct2D feature that will allow the Firefox browser to use the graphic power directly from your graphics card.

At this rate it would seem Mozilla will have Direct2D implemented in Firefox — if not in Firefox 3.7 coming mid-2010, then in Firefox 4 coming later the same year — quite possibly, much before ...