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How To Disable Hardware Acceleration in Firefox in a Few Steps
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Updated onJuly 11, 2024
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Wondering how to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox?
GPU acceleration often leads to website surfing performance and content rendering issues. It’s especially prevalent in incompatible or underperforming graphics processing units.
In this guide, I’ll cover tried and tested techniques to disable this feature to avoid such browsing inconveniences. Let’s get into it!
Reasons to Disable Hardware Acceleration in Firefox
You might want to deactivate GPU acceleration in Firefox in the following situations:
How To Disable Hardware Acceleration in Firefox
Find below different methods to disable GPU acceleration on your browser:
On a Windows PC
On a Mac
Using a Terminal Tool
Disable WebGL
If you want to reduce the load on your GPU, you might also want to turn off the WebGL feature of Firefox. WebGL helps the browser process and display graphical content, videos, animations, etc.
After disabling hardware acceleration, do the following:
Summary
If you’re here, congratulations! Now you know how to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox. We also have a guide forOpera GXif you need it.
Before you leave, why not check how tochange user agent in Firefox? We have a guide dedicated to it, so don’t miss it.
If the article helped you to fix any GPU-related issues in Firefox or you want to give feedback, feel free to do so in the comments.
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Vlad Turiceanu
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Passionate about technology,Windows, and everything that has a power button, he spent most of his time developing new skills and learning more about the tech world.
Coming from a solid background in PC building and software development, with a complete expertise in touch-based devices, he is constantly keeping an eye out for the latest and greatest!
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Coming from a solid background in PC building and software development, he’s a Windows 11 Privacy & Security expert.
