Closed Bug 1825187 Opened 3 years ago Closed 3 years ago

Flatpak Firefox is missing GPU acceleration for rendering

Categories

(Core :: Graphics: WebRender, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Graphics: WebRender
Version:
Firefox 111
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: mtnlv5ix, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:111.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/111.0

Steps to reproduce:

Firefox installed through Flathub does not have device=dri permission. Due to this, rendering falls back to WebRender (Software).

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Insall Firefox from Flathub or Flathub beta
  2. Launch Firefox
  3. Visit about:support
  4. Check Graphics section for Compositing.

Flatseal shows, Firefox does not have Flatpak's device=dri permission enabled. Enabling it activates hardware acceleration.

Actual results:

Firefox renders through WebRender (Software)

Expected results:

Firefox should have access for DRI and use hardware accelerated WebRender.

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Graphics: WebRender' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Graphics: WebRender
Product: Firefox → Core
OS: Unspecified → Linux
Hardware: Unspecified → x86_64

Okay. This is my fault. I disabled devices=all permission, so Firefox could not access DRI. Closing this bug.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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