Firefox Hardware Acceleration Go Brrr

Firefox 88 finally has WebRender and thus hardware acceleration enabled by default on Linux. The results are amazing. Chrome 89 got a score of seconds on the same machine. So that’s: Firefox 87: Firefox 88 (Nightly): Chrome 89: It’s worth noting that the scores did vary between tests and the difference between Firefox 88 and Chrome 89 was fairly small, but Firefox was always faster and can finally run at my computer’s native 144hz. The tests were run on a machine with these specs: OS: Kubuntu Kernel: CPU: 12 × Intel Core i7-9750H CPU @ GPU 1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM The Nvidia GPU was not used for the tests as Firefox’s WebRender seems to still have some issues with the proprietary driver, but I mentioned it anyway in case it contributed. [