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Re:Firefox 68.0 by gjm11 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @10:39AM (#20392187)
> Windows 10 users with AMD graphics cards

It may be worth noting that WebRender was already deployed to Win10/Nvidia users in Firefox 67.

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Re:Firefox 68.0 by giancarlostoro on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @10:43AM (#20392237)
Ah I didn't know this, that makes more sense, I guess they wanted to isolate such a release by GPU to resolve immediate issues per release.
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Re:Firefox 68.0 by Santosh83 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @10:44AM (#20392250)
Will it also eventually roll out for those with Intel Integrated Graphics?
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Re:Firefox 68.0 by helb on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @10:58AM (#20392407)
Eventually… https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1479781

You can enable/disable webrender in about:config if you want to try it out (gfx.webrender.all). I've switched to it on my laptop (HD Graphics 620, Gentoo Linux). So far so good.

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Re:Firefox 68.0 by sametmax on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @11:42AM (#20392876)
Confirmed, Ubuntu 16.04 on dell xps works fine, and the added boost in perf is noticeable (or the placebo effect is not).
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Re:Firefox 68.0 by realusername on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @11:25AM (#20392685)
On my case that just results in a black page for every site.
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Re:Firefox 68.0 by the_duke on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @10:59AM (#20392423)
Webrender will by the default everywhere ... eventually.

Mozilla is just using a conservative, staged rollout to limit the impact of bugs.

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Re:Firefox 68.0 by unwrap on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @05:32AM (#20400424)
You can force-enable it in about:config:

    gfx.webrender.enabled
    gfx.webrender.all
Works fine on my HD4600.
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