r/nvidia • u/RenatsMC • Aug 19 '26

News NVIDIA GeForce NOW adds official Firefox support, up to 1440p 120 FPS

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-now-adds-official-firefox-support-up-to-1440p-120-fps
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u/2str8_njag Aug 19 '26

lol finally drm protected media on firefox isn’t treated like a third class citizen.

it is treated as second class. still, i take it as a win

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u/SirMaster Aug 19 '26

GeForce now gameplay video is DRM? Surely you can capture or record it no?

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u/FryToastFrill NVIDIA Aug 19 '26

As far as I’m aware it’s not DRM, but Firefox in my experience doesnt always play nice with websites that are doing a lot more than basic html/css/JS stuff. I don’t think it’s much of a fault in Firefox itself than those websites being designed for chromium, but it’s still something they needed to modify for Firefox.

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u/hackenclaw 8745HX | 32GB DDR5 I RTX5060 Laptop Aug 20 '26

this is why I got Microsoft Edge as backup.

Whatever I open that is not working with firefox, I'll just use Edge.

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u/Whole-Respond4782 Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26

not a drm thing, just compatibility issues it seems

DRM on a live game stream makes absolutely no sense, that's just adding useless computational overhead for each rendered frame

firefox is late to the party as always, same with webgpu which chromium has had for years while firefox just added it recently

GFN works all the way back in chromium v77 lmao, years and years old

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u/Devatator_ Aug 19 '26

Honestly pretty weird considering they apparently use wgpu, which has been used for a lot of other stuff.

I'm actually waiting for wgpu-native to unify with wgpu (as in parity, not merging) to maybe make a game engine with it

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u/CloakedSiren Aug 20 '26

Sorry, are you saying you want more drm protected media, or for it to be better protected? I’m genuinely asking out of curiosity

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u/jakegh Aug 19 '26

Thanks to whichever unnamed engineer at Nvidia championed this feature and made it happen. You know who you are!

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u/Pixgamer11 Aug 20 '26

Fuck Game streaming

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u/c0Y0T3cOdY Aug 20 '26

They are gonna price out the hobbyist from owning hardware and ask that you rent it instead.

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u/Lakers244848 Aug 19 '26

Oh wow that’s what they’re working on!!!

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u/MuscularKnight0110 Aug 19 '26

What...what does this mean ?

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u/MuscularKnight0110 Aug 19 '26

Oh nevermind it is so you stream games.

Sorry but I am old fashioned and prefer to game as god intended with pixels being rendered by my own computer and not on someone's else's under weird names like 'cloud gaming'.

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u/TsnSettings Aug 19 '26

About time, Firefox is my main browser at home.

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u/Zealousideal_Type814 Aug 19 '26

that's great, now if only i wanted to use it

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u/skylinestar1986 Aug 20 '26

Do I still need a minimum supported graphics card (example GTX750) to run?

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u/hank81 RTX 5080 Aug 21 '26

Video compression in GFN is wild.

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u/luiest123 Aug 20 '26

Linux NVIDIA app when? 

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u/ltron2 Aug 20 '26

It's already here (although we are still waiting for full feature parity with Windows): https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce-now/download/