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Firefox disabled hardware acceleration on Linux [12-2016] (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
1 point by hedora on Feb 17, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



I couldn't figure out why the internet was so freaking slow for the last few months, then I stumbled on this.

As much as I prefer Firefox over Chromium, lack of OpenGL support essentially forced me to switch. To see if it hit you:

about:support will say "GPU Accelerated Windows 0/1 Basic (OMTC)"

1/1 means accelerated.

To override (this leads to terrible artifacts on my machine, but is actually more usable than the default, for me):

Go to about:config and set this to true, then restart:

layers.acceleration.force-enabled

Alternatively, you can kind of work around it by using noscript (javascript often leads to tons of screen redraws per second).

It sounds like they disabled this across the board, due to lack of development resources. Maybe it's time to send some cash to the Mozilla foundation.




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