Force Hardware Compositing

Force Hardware Compositing

Forces Chromium to use hardware compositing, improving scroll performance and reducing CPU usage.

Merlin
Stats
This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2023-01-29
Users: 36
Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2015-09-27)
Creation date: 2015-09-27
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 3.36K
Stats date:

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
Want to check extension ranking and stats more quickly for other Chrome extensions? Install Chrome-Stats extension to view Chrome-Stats data as you browse the Chrome Web Store.
Chrome-Stats extension
Merlin
Summary

This extension forces Chromium to use hardware compositing, improving scroll performance and reducing CPU usage, especially for complicated webpages such as Google+ or Facebook.

Note that RGB font anti-aliasing will disabled on composited layers.

Safety
Risk impact

Force Hardware Compositing is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Force Hardware Compositing may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.

Upgrade to see risk analysis details
Similar extensions

Here are some Chrome extensions that are similar to Force Hardware Compositing: