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Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141
After years in development, we will be releasing WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141! WebGPU gives web content a modern interface to the user’s graphics processor, enabling high-performance comp…
Firefox’s WebGPU implementation is based on WGPU, a Rust crate that provides a unified, portable interface to the low-level graphics APIs of the underlying platform: Direct3D 12, Metal, and Vulkan. Firefox uses unbuffered inter-process communication to convey web content’s requests to the GPU sandbox process, which introduces significant overhead. It’s been a big project, but we’re done tinkering with the engine and taking test drives — we’re finally ready to roll WebGPU out of the garage and hand it over to you for daily use.
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