WebRender enabled by default in Firefox 71, also for Linux

Fast Firefox with WebRender

At the end of May, Mozilla launched Firefox 67 and one of its most notable novelties was WebRender. It is a technology that allows a website to move at the highest number of FPS it can offer. This is achieved by rendering in a similar way to how you would a video game and a page that in Firefox 66 looked at 15-20 FPS, in Firefox 67 it looks at 60FPS… on a few Windows computers. Linux users had to wait.

But it seems that the wait is over: the latest Nightly version of Mozilla's browser, that is, Firefox 71 you already have WebRender enabled by default on Linux. Just like we explained in his dayTo check if we have it activated, we just have to go to the "about: support" page and go to the Graphics / Composition section. If we see something other than "WebRender", we do not have it activated.

The Nightly version of Firefox for Linux already uses WebRender

Mozilla has not made any statement about this novelty, so it is not clear which devices we will have available with the launch of Firefox 71. On the other hand, we are talking about changes introduced in the Nightly version, which means that they can backtrack and make us wait a little longer. At the moment, the only certain thing is that Firefox 71 (Nightly), on a computer with Ubuntu 19.04 and Intel processor and graphics card, has it activated.

Firefox 67 also introduced as a novelty that we could use more than one Firefox installation, which means that we can have the stable version, the Beta version, the Nightly version and the developer version on the same computer if we wish. I mention this because anyone who is interested can check for themselves the information I provide in this article. Doing so is as simple as going to the Firefox trial versions page, downloading the Nightly version (from here) go to the about: support / Graphics / Composition section and see for yourself.

Firefox 71 will be officially launched on December 3 and another thing that will be activated by default will be PiP or Picture in Picture on pages like YouTube… for Windows users. Well, I sign I have to be patient with this; they have to have it with their operating system.


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