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Troubleshooting: How to Disable Hardware Acceleration on Your Browser

If you’re encountering video issues while attempting to watch a course on a browser, one of the troubleshooting steps we recommend is to disable hardware acceleration you have installed. This article explains how you can disable hardware acceleration on your browser.

  • Review additional troubleshooting steps to resolve audio and video issues (on a browser).
  • Encountering issues while watching courses on or via Udemy’s mobile app? Please review these troubleshooting steps.

How to disable hardware acceleration on your browser

The instructions below outline how to disable hardware acceleration on either a Google Chrome or Firefox browser.

  • Please note: if you encounter any issues disabling the hardware acceleration based on the instructions below, we recommend contacting Google or Firefox directly.

Disabling hardware acceleration in Google Chrome:

  1. Open Chrome.
  2. Click on the three dots in the upper-right corner to open the menu.
  3. Go to Settings.
  4. On the left side, select System.
  5. Under the System section, toggle the switch for Use hardware acceleration when available to On or Off.
  6. Restart Chrome.

Disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox:

  1. Open Mozilla Firefox; click on the Firefox menu button and select "Settings".
  2. On the "General" tab, scroll down to "Performance". Make sure the "Use recommended performance settings" checkbox is disabled and disable the "Use hardware acceleration when available" option.
  3. Restart the browser.

If you are accessing the courses via Safari: 

Unfortunately, Safari does not allow users to turn hardware acceleration on and off. As noted above, we recommend using Google Chrome as we’ve found it works best to watch Udemy courses. 

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