On the about:Support page under “GPU Accelerated Windows” it says 0/1 on my system so I think that means I don’t have hardware acceleration enabled. Still I am getting 60+fps on that page you linked to. Strange.
With 9800GTX (latest drivers) openSUSE x64 Firefox 4 RC and webgl.force.enabled and layers.acceleration.force both set to true I am getting about 25 FPS … with them false/off more than 60+ FPS. So I guess I am better off with’em turned off (0/1).
On 03/18/2011 02:36 AM, 6tr6tr wrote:
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> Neither one is great, but why is hardware acceleration so crappy?!
this seems like a question best aimed at the Firefox developers…
i say that because here, i find that that Google Chrome is over three
times faster than Firefox, and both Opera and Konqueror are four times
faster…
i used to have IE4Linux but it is so butt-ugly i haven’t installed it
on this beautiful version of openSUSE…
anyway, it seems the Fox3 is a little piggy…
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I just looked in my browser settings without using about:config, just the browser options. Hardware acceleration is by default enabled where supported.
So it is likely that when folks force options in about:config they are actually doing more harm then good.