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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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[–] 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?