WebRender has been running for some time. Built as a GPU-based 2D rendering engine written in Rust, The purpose of WebRender is to make page rendering faster and smoother. Although this function has been planned for some time, it has still been implemented on a giant scale.
If you are using the 67 or newer edition of Firefox (which you deserve, because it is an old edition of the browser), you can activate this rendering engine. Surprisingly, even the use of the 78.0.2 edition on Linux, macOS, and Windows or the Nightly edition on Linux shows that WebRender is not enabled by default.
Once I turned on the feature, I saw particularly faster page reations. So, even if WebRender is not in a position for mass adoption, it also shows great promise and stability.
So how do you turn on this feature to get faster, smoother page representations? Let me show you.
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To allow WebRender, you need a recent edition of the Firefox Internet browser on any desktop or platform.
Open your Firefox Internet browser. In the type of facing the bar:
You will be warned that they are on the horizon (Figure A).
Figure A
You’ve been warned of the risks.
Click Accept Risk and continue. In the window that appears, enter the following in the search bar (Figure B):
Figure B
The window about: config.
You will no longer see the gfx.webrender.all entry (Figure C).
Figure C
The gfx.webrender.all access in about:config.
Click the arrows pointing to the right and left to the right of the front to make gfx.webrender.all from false to real. Once you see true in the cinput, close and restart Firefox. When Firefox reopens, enter the following in the face bar:
Tap Input on your keyboard, and when the page loads, scroll to the Graphics section. You’ll see Composition indexed as WebRender (Figure D).
Figure D
Indeed, we have moved from the fundamental composition engine to WebRender.
I was able to activate WebRender for Linux and macOS versions of Firefox. On Windows 10, however, it wasn’t. Even if about:config showed that WebRender was enabled, about: aid indicated that the composition engine was basic. This may also be due to the fact that my Windows 10 example functioned as a VirtualBox virtual machine. Interestingly, however, an example of Ubuntu Linux running as VM VirtualBox has accepted the changes, so its mileage would possibly vary.
And that’s all it takes to activate the Mozilla WebRender composition engine in Firefox. Do it this way and see if your page’s rendering times can succeed in warp speed.
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