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What is hardware acceleration in browser?

Last Updated : 31 Jan, 2024
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Hardware acceleration in a browser is a process that utilizes the GPU (graphics processing unit) to handle graphics-intensive tasks.

Tasks such as rendering web pages, playing videos, and running web applications. This can significantly improve the performance of the web application in the browsers as the CPU (central processing unit) load is reduced.

To enable or disable hardware acceleration in your browser, you can follow the steps provided here. For various browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Opera.


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