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Firefox 81 Enters Beta with GPU Acceleration Enabled by Default on Linux

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9to5Linux; By Marius Nestor
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While the Firefox 80 web browser is making its way into the stable software repositories of some of the most popular GNU/Linux distributions out there, Mozilla already pushed the Firefox 81 release to the beta channel.

Firefox 80 introduces a highly anticipated feature for Linux users, namely VA-API/FFmpeg hardware acceleration for video playback on systems using the traditional X11/X.Org Server display server.

But the GPU acceleration feature is disabled by default, so you would have to open the about:config page and enable the media.ffmpeg.vaapi-drm-display.enabled and media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled options. With the upcoming Firefox 81 release, it appears that Mozilla has enabled the GPU acceleration by default.

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