Firefox Nightly can use your GPU to render web browsing
Frame by frame, the same way games are rendered
By Isaiah Mayersen
Forward-looking: Do you notice when your web browser drops frames? Even
if you have a powerful CPU you probably find that you don’t quite reach
the silky-smooth 60fps mark when scrolling down a website with a moving
background. It’s even worse at 4K, not to mention Mozilla’s goals of
dual 4K 90fps display integration for their WebVR projects. This is
because of the inefficient method current web browsers use to render web
pages.
Mozilla’s solution to the problem – called WebRender – has recently been
enabled in the Firefox beta variant Firefox Nightly by Mozilla
developer Jeff Muizelaar. It’s automatically enabled for Windows 10
desktop devices with an Nvidia GPU and you can enable it in settings on
other hardware, though he says it isn’t ready for Android yet.
WebRender is part of Mozilla’s long-term plan to overhaul Firefox to be
future ready and has been under testing for many months “without major
issues.” Like most Nightly features, full integration into standard
Firefox is expected soon. Various Firefox Nightly users have already
reported noticeable performance increases, while others are worried that
having the browser open in the background could harm game performance.
You can check out the performance uplift in the example video below:
https://www.geezgo.com/sps/39390
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