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Disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox for security reasons (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by citytree@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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I am using Firefox ESR on Linux. Does it make any sense to disable hardware acceleration for security reasons?

Whereas Firefox is open source, many hardware drivers, and most computer hardware are not. Enabling hardware acceleration in Firefox means using these non-open-source components, which could be a security risk. My impression is that bugs in drivers and hardware are able to cause far more damage than ones in userland software. Does this reasoning make sense?

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[–] beta_tester@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Source for your claim? Otherwise it's fud

[–] citytree@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Source for your claim? Otherwise it’s fud

I am not making any definite claims. I am just wondering whether or not the reasoning in the question makes sense. If it does not, please tell me why the reasoning is wrong. Thank you.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

What claim?? It's a question.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr/

ESR has a bit of history when it comes to vulnerabilities. What doesn't though?

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Which one? There's an open source AMD driver

[–] Aradia@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I found this: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/273954/does-enabling-hardware-acceleration-increase-the-attack-surface-of-software

In my opinion, it looks that disabling hardware acceleration could increase the security on your browser.