2015-07-15

‎Force Enable Hardware Acceleration: fix style (Help:Style and Help:Reading)

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This section contains advanced Firefox options for performance tweaking. For additional information see [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Category:Tweaking_preferences these Mozillazine forum posts].

This section contains advanced Firefox options for performance tweaking. For additional information see [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Category:Tweaking_preferences these Mozillazine forum posts].



==== Force
Enable Hardware Acceleration
====

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==== Force
enable hardware acceleration
====



First
check if acceleration is enabled
by going
to {{ic|about:support}} under the Graphics section look for
'
GPU Accelerated Windows
'
. If it reports
'
0/1 OpenGL (OMTC)
'
(possibly 0/2) acceleration is disabled
,
if it reports
'
1/1 OpenGL (OMTC)
'
(possibly 1/2 or 2/2) it is enabled.

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To
check if acceleration is enabled
, go
to {{ic|about:support}}
and
under the
"
Graphics
"
section look for
"
GPU Accelerated Windows
"
. If it reports
"
0/1 OpenGL (OMTC)
"
(possibly 0/2)
,
acceleration is disabled
;
if it reports
"
1/1 OpenGL (OMTC)
"
(possibly 1/2 or 2/2) it is enabled.

To enable acceleration go to {{ic|about:config}} and set:

To enable acceleration go to {{ic|about:config}} and set:

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* layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled true

* layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled true



Finally,
open a terminal and run:

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Finally, export
the {{ic|1=
MOZ_USE_OMTC=1
}} [[environment variable]], for example:



# sh -c "echo
export MOZ_USE_OMTC=1
>>
/etc/profile.d/mozilla-common.sh
"

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{{hc|
/etc/profile.d/mozilla-common.sh
|2=

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export MOZ_USE_OMTC=1

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}}



Restart X server or reboot for
changes
to take effect
, to verify go back to {{ic|about:support}} and check under 'GPU Accelerated Windows'

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Restart X server or reboot for
the change
to take effect
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