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		jaimex2 on May 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome exten... This is great news for Firefox.

techntoke on May 30, 2019 [–]

Not if you want hardware acceleration support in Linux. Not that most Firefox users care about open source operating systems.

jaimex2 on May 31, 2019 | [–]

I thought it had hardware acceleration? Alas hidden away in advanced settings.

techntoke on May 31, 2019 | | [–]

No, Firefox doesn't support hardware acceleration for video decoding at all.

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