Firefox use hardware acceleration when available

This option in firefox seems to slow it down a lot of times If you seem to see that your Browser is loading pages really slowly and when it should not.Turn off this option in firefox.

use hardware acceleration when available This will slow the web browser in the newer versions of firefox.I am finding that the use hardware acceleration when available is harming the loading page speed.It may not for some people but for others like me it is.

I have a 10mb download and a 5mb upload speed so there should be no reason way my computer should take 5mins too load a web page.When i disabled this option it loaded all of my pages in like a sec.

Here is how to disable it.
In firefox Go to Tools
Then Options
Then click on advance
Then in General options look for use hardware acceleration when available and un-tick it then restart browser.

Hope this helps.

 

Old info, nothing to see here.

 

Why would Hardware Acceleration in any way influence loading of a web page?

 

It affects the rendering of the webpages. There has been issues reported on previous versions of FF, regarding Hardware acceleration, due to some GPU's driver software cave when it is enabled.

 

I see... In that case updating the graphics drivers may more effectively fix the problem instead of disabling HA.

 

Nope, still will not fix the issue with the Hardware rendering & FF. I just leave it enabled, due to it has never caused any issues with my Netbook, same with our desktop. There are some machines out there that just gag with FF.

 

I don't like Firefox myself it has become very slow and sometimes unresponsive. My main love is now with Opera 12.11 very fast and secure got a few addons added to it but still not slowed the browser down.

 

I've seen disabling Hardware Acceleration dramatically improve page render speeds on some machines myself. Even with the latest drivers. Disabling it doesn't seem to start a cascade of other problems, so, IMO, it seems a good fix for some hardware...

 

Let's take a look at what FX is seeing/using for your gfx card: (Alt) > Help > Troubleshooting information (about:support), copy/paste the section for Graphics here please.

 

See that is the funny thing on that i have the latest driver for my video card.310.54Beta and it is still running sluggish.So it can not be the drivers well may be be cause it is the beta version i guess.