Firefox Quantum: Disable hardware acceleration

Below we will see how you can disable hardware acceleration in the Firefox browser, which is turned on by default, but can cause problems if te older hardware that does not support GPU acceleration.

The ap of hardware acceleration can be useful if you need to test some function on a web page (for developers).

As you may already know, from Firefox 57 and beyond we saw a huge transformation on Mozilla browserin terms of performance, UI and addons.

It has a new user interface, also known as "Photon", as well as the new "Quantum" engine.

Ήταν μια δύσκολη κίνηση για τους προγραμματιστές της εφαρμογής, επειδή από αυτή την έκδοση και μετά, το πρόγραμμα περιήγησης σταματά να υποστηρίζει εντελώς τα πρόσθετα που είναι βασισμένα στο XUL. Όλα τα κλασικά πρόσθετα δεν είναι συμβατά και σήμερα έχουν μείνει λίγα. Αυτά που χρησιμοποιούν το WebExtensions .

The Quantum engine has to do with the delivery and processing of parallel web pages. It is built with a multi-process architecture to process CSS and HTML, which makes the whole application more reliable and much faster.

If performance in web page opening is not fast enough on your computer, or you are experiencing problems with Flash or HTML5 video, you can try to disable hardware acceleration.

The του προσαρμογέα s you use may have compatibility problems or the same s monitor may not support the appropriate acceleration profile, which reduces performance instead of improving it.

To turn off hardware acceleration in Firefox Quantum, do the following:

Click on hamburger menu (the last button to the right of the toolbar).

The main menu will appear. Click Options (Options)
Under General, scroll down until you see the performance box.

Firefox
Remove Use recommended settings and disable Use hardware acceleration.

That's it. The hardware acceleration in Firefox is disabled.

Note: In the same section, you will find another useful option. It is called the content process limit. By using this option, you can control your browser behavior for multiple tab processing (e10s). Increasing the number of processes will make your browser run faster when you have multiple tabs open but you will need more memory.

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