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		bwat48 on Sept 7, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement ... This is definitely true when it comes to graphics, linux is the redheaded step child when it comes to the graphics stack. Afaik firefox still doesn't have OpenGL accelerated compositing (at least not enabled in stable builds yet) on linux On OSX and Windows it has hardware accelerated compositing, video decoding, canvas etc...

alexbecker on Sept 8, 2016 [–]

I don't know whether it has accelerated compositing, but in my experience compositing is relatively cheap compared to painting the layers or especially layout. That may be an artifact of the app I work on being poorly composited, however.

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