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		jhasse on Jan 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox 65.0 released It is, but there was also another one in Firefox (you could enable it on Linux by setting layers.acceleration.force-enabled to true).

shmerl on Jan 29, 2019 [–]

I suppose they didn't want to actively work on such features for something that's going to be deprecated. Since WebRender is their way forward, they can as well implement video acceleration together with it.

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