Firefox 153 available with support for Vulkan video decoding, JPEG-XL
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What commenters are saying
Commenters focused on the Vulkan video decoding feature. Several users noted that hardware-accelerated video decoding on Linux, especially with Nvidia GPUs, can be less power-efficient than software decoding due to the GPU entering a high-power state. One user discovered that setting `CUDA_DISABLE_PERF_BOOST` eliminated this extra power draw, making GPU and CPU decoding equally efficient. Others discussed the long-standing difficulty of getting Firefox's hardware decoding to work reliably on Linux compared to Chromium, with some reporting success after tweaking settings. A user pointed out that the Phoronix article linked to an RC release, not the final Firefox 153.