Experimental Code Allows Vulkan-Accelerated Gecko/Firefox On Linux
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Hungarian developer Attila Dusnoki shared the milestone this week of being able to run Gecko with Vulkan on Linux.
This is part of the effort to run Gecko with GFX-RS. GFX-RS, of course, is the Rust portability initiative with low-level graphics abstractions to map to Vulkan, Metal, Direct3D, etc, depending upon the platform.
With the very experimental Gecko code paired with GFX-RS, this can mean using Vulkan for GPU acceleration of the Firefox code. Besides building the out-of-tree code, the environment variables MOZ_ACCELERATED=1 MOZ_WEBRENDER=1 need also be set.
Before getting too excited, Dusnoki warned, "this is VERY experimental ;)"
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