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Why does disabling hardware acceleration change font too

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Kynisen
Kynisen
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I had to disable hardware acceleration because it was messing with some images on some websites. But once I did the fonts changed. They became smaller and thinner. If I enable HA again then the fonts go back to normal.

I had to disable hardware acceleration because it was messing with some images on some websites. But once I did the fonts changed. They became smaller and thinner. If I enable HA again then the fonts go back to normal.

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Wesley Branton
Wesley Branton
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When hardware acceleration is enabled in Firefox, your Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is used to render websites. When it is disabled, your Central Processing Unit (CPU) is used to display websites. The GPU and CPU may display items slightly different.

WebGL ,a Web Graphics Library, is used when hardware acceleration. WebGL is responsible for rendering some graphics on websites, so when it is disabled, some text and other items may appear different.

For more information on hardware acceleration in Firefox, please refer to this Mozilla support article:

On a side note, if you are interested in getting your hardware acceleration working again, please refer to the steps listed in the above article.

Kynisen
Kynisen Question owner
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Okay that makes more sense. My graphics card and driver are all up to date, and I still had an issue with hardware acceleration in Firefox only. Chrome I didn't have this issue with so I thought it was just all to do with Firefox settings. Thank you!