--- title: Firefox Merges Support For Vulkan Video Decoding | daily.dev description: Firefox is gaining Vulkan Video decoding support, set to ship in Firefox 153 on July 21. This addresses a long-standing gap where Linux GPU-accelerated video... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/firefox-merges-support-for-vulkan-video-decoding-pjqbu9rgp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Firefox Merges Support For Vulkan Video Decoding | daily.dev og:description: Firefox is gaining Vulkan Video decoding support, set to ship in Firefox 153 on July 21. This addresses a long-standing gap where Linux GPU-accelerated video... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/firefox-merges-support-for-vulkan-video-decoding-pjqbu9rgp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PjQbU9rGp.png og:image:alt: Firefox Merges Support For Vulkan Video Decoding og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Firefox Merges Support For Vulkan Video Decoding **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Firefox is gaining Vulkan Video decoding support, set to ship in Firefox 153 on July 21. This addresses a long-standing gap where Linux GPU-accelerated video playback relied on VA-API, which lacks universal driver support — particularly for NVIDIA and smaller Arm/embedded GPUs. The work was contributed by NVIDIA engineer Tymur Boiko and Red Hat's Martin Stransky. Vulkan Video offers broader cross-platform adoption and could benefit users whose drivers don't support VA-API. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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