[ Solved ] How to Enable/Disable GPU Acceleration in Chrome & Firefox
Google ChromeTo check if your Chrome / Chromium browser uses hardware acceleration, open a new tab, type: "chrome://gpu" (without the quotes) and look under "Graphics Feature status" - all (or at least most of) the features should say "hardware accelerated".
Here's how it looks like on my laptop (Intel graphics) after enabling hardware acceleration:
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C9It98guV9Y/Us_8J3IGPhI/AAAAAAAARCQ/jVRAN8QeDnI/s1600/chrome-hwaccel-enabled.jpg)
And here's another screenshot with this page before enabling hardware acceleration:
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kAzoBBi__qs/Us_8QKLkS4I/AAAAAAAARCY/clR-uKEP-oU/s1600/chrome-no-hwaccel.jpg)
To force Chrome / Chromium to use hardware acceleration, open a new tab, type "chrome://flags" (without quotes), search for "Override software rendering list", enable it and restart Chrome / Chromium:
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EkSyiBuAY54/Us_8bm5IV7I/AAAAAAAARCg/xcDDhk3X4ps/s1600/chrome-enable-hwaccel.jpg)
FirefoxTo enable hardware acceleration on Firefox, go to firefox configuration page by typing about:config in browser's address bar.
(http://www.techlivez.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/firefox-gpu-enable.jpg)
Now in the filter search for gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled. Set the value to true from default value which is false. restart your browser after this is done.
In Firefox go to about:config and create boolean with
Quotegfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled
and set it to true.
Remember that it might or might not work, depending on the used GPU drivers/modules. You might probably notice problems on open source drivers for AMD and nVidia or older Intel drivers, so keep that in mind when trying to enable hardware acceleration. :)