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

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Source for your claim? Otherwise it's fud

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

What claim?? It's a question.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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?