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Doesn't hardware accelerated graphics on Firefox on Linux require modifying a preference? AFAIK you need to go to about:config and enable layers.acceleration.fo
by abrowne 8y ago
Doesn't hardware accelerated graphics on Firefox on Linux require modifying a preference? AFAIK you need to go to about:config and enable layers.acceleration.force-enabled. (This is speaking as someone who uses Firefox on Linux as my main browser.)
The bug for enabling hardware rendering by default on some systems appears to still be open: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594876 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594876
- shmerl 8y agoYes, Firefox is stuck with blacklisting basically everything. I guess developers didn't revisit drivers situation in the recent times. Just set these in your $HOME/.profile export MOZ_WEBRENDER=1 export MOZ_ACCELERATED=1
- jammygit 8y agoThanks! Edit - will that work for the snap version BTW?
- shmerl 8y agoYou'd need to figure out how environment variables work in Snap and set them there, I haven't used it myself.
- staktrace 8y agoPlease don't encourage people to turn on WebRender without at least warning them that it is experimental, still under development, can cause your computer to blow up, etc. Also the environment variables you specified will force it on even on non-Nightly builds which is very undesirable since those builds are not getting fixes uplifted. (I work on WebRender for Firefox)
- shmerl 8y agoI've been using WebRender on beta builds on Linux for several months already - it works quite well (AMD / radeonsi). WebRender is more raw indeed, but regular layers acceleration should surely be re-evaluated instead sweeping blacklisting like it happens now.