Firefox Adds Initial Support for Vulkan Video Decoding on Linux
Mozilla Firefox has added initial support for Vulkan Video decoding, enabling GPU-accelerated video playback. This is particularly significant for Linux users, as Firefox previously relied on the Video Acceleration API (VA-API), which has limited driver support across Linux graphics drivers, including NVIDIA and smaller Arm/embedded GPUs. Vulkan Video offers a more universally compatible alternative for hardware-accelerated video decoding.