Force Hardware Compositing

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

Extension 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

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Extension 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.

Extension safety

Risk impact

Force Hardware Compositing requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

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

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