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Enable hardware acceleration (ff44 ubuntu 14.04)

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Without hardware acceleration youtube videos are lagging in full screen and 4k videos not possible to watch at all. I`ve tried to do this http://askubuntu.com/questions/491750/force-enable-hardware-acceleration-in-firefox , but ff is flckering and I cannot use it . In settings acceleration turned on. The Newest ati drives are installed. Trivial things dont work it`s sad.

Without hardware acceleration youtube videos are lagging in full screen and 4k videos not possible to watch at all. I`ve tried to do this http://askubuntu.com/questions/491750/force-enable-hardware-acceleration-in-firefox , but ff is flckering and I cannot use it . In settings acceleration turned on. The Newest ati drives are installed. Trivial things dont work it`s sad.

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Certain hardware will not work properly with Firefox's hardware acceleration. Please contact the manufacturer of your computer's hardware for further assistance on this issue.

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But why does it work on windows? So problem definitely not in hardware.

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Not sure why he replied as if you were using Windows instead of Linux.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Blocked_Graphics_Drivers#On_X11

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In age of youtube, vimeo, 4k resolution and other things which uses gpu rendering u r not supporting? Even chrome for linux supports. Sorry, but f*ck dat sh*t. Really, cannot understand what u r doing on linux, when key features cannot be made working.