On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 01:27:50PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > Hardware acceleration is unchecked by default it Torbrowser. > > Other than some machines might not support it, is there a reason not > to enabled it? > > Some fingerprinting or other issue?
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10531 which points to https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-June/thread.html#28620 Basically, some Windows systems were crashing when Tor Browser had hardware acceleration enabled. I think we made that change in TBB 3.5rc1: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-bundle-35rc1-released See the (alas not labelled with a ticket number) line: "Misc Prefs: Disable layer acceleration to avoid crashes on Windows" It looks from the various tickets like the issue is not entirely sorted for all users. > The dev manual (stable) just has this to say: > > */"HardwareAccel* *0*|*1* > > If non-zero, try to use built-in (static) crypto hardware > acceleration when available. (Default: 0)"/ > > Indicating it may be turned on or off (off by default). Be careful! I think you asked here about hardware acceleration in Tor Browser, aka our Firefox fork, but the man page you're quoting is for the program called tor. --Roger -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
