0Mozilla Firefox LogoEnable Full Firefox 4 Hardware Acceleration

Published on by in Web Technologies. Updated 3rd October 2011.

I’ve found that Fire­fox 4 doesn’t seem to have com­plete hard­ware accel­er­a­tion enabled by default and by using the fol­low­ing tweaks have improved per­form­ance.


1.  Go to Firefox:Options:Options:Advanced

Make sure “Use hard­ware accel­er­a­tion when avail­able” is ticked

2. Go to about:config and add or change the following

mozilla.widget.render-mode : 6
gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled : true
webgl.force-enabled : true

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