Firefox's Linuxy Hardware Acceleration Problem

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Firefox’s Linuxy Hardware Acceleration Problem

January 25, 2011 No Comments

It’s not clear who’s to blame for the Firefox hardware acceleration problem on Linux, said Montreal consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack. “I’ve been running a lot of games that use Open GL with no problem, but I tried enabling it on firefox and the Xserver didn’t crash — Firefox did,” he added. “Perhaps instead of publicly whining they could try submitting some bug reports.”