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One near-future goal is to move the compositor out from the UI process into its own separate one. Mozilla currently maintains a sizeable blacklist of {feature,
by mintplant 10y ago
One near-future goal is to move the compositor out from the UI process into its own separate one. Mozilla currently maintains a sizeable blacklist of {feature, GPU, OS, driver} for hardware acceleration because glitchy drivers cause whole-process crashes. When this occurs a separate compositor process can be restarted instantly without the user noticing.