Speed Up Firefox
If you are experiencing tearing while using
Firefox you may want to see if graphics accelleration is
enabled on the browser. You can try this tip to force hardware
accelleration on in the browser.
First, check to make sure that your Linux desktop installation
supports it by running the following command and making sure that
direct rendering returns Yes:
$ glxinfo | grep render
direct rendering: Yes
Then, open Firefox if it’s not already running, and enter
about:config in the address bar. Click
Accept The Risk And Continue when prompted, to get to the
Firefox Advanced Configuration Editor
Search for “layers.acceleration.force-enabled” and you
should then see it listed in the results.
Click the right and left pointing arrow icon associated with the entry until false changes to true. Once that’s taken care of, close and restart Firefox.
If you don’t see layers.acceleration.force-enabled
listed, you’ll need to create it by right-clicking an empty area and
selecting New | Boolean. Name the new entry
layers.acceleration.force-enabled and set it to true.
Restart Firefox and you’re done.
If you notice any issues with Firefox after that and you need to
revert your change, just search again and toggle it back to
false.
Some folks report that setting gfx.xrender.enabled=true
and layers.acceleration.force-enabled and
layers.force-active also works. YMMV ;^)
Tags: firefox, tearing, accelleration, glxinfo, direct-rendering, motd