General Discussion • Re: Browser Stability and Hardware Acceleration vs. Power Consistency?

Pale Moon doesn't do anything super low-level with the hardware. Even if accelerated, it will still go through the normal interfaces (DirectX or OpenGL, or XRender, depending on your O.S.) Issues with power delivery don't really come into the picture in our level of operation, so it's more likely the GPU just becomes less stable at the driver level; especially if you're seeing checkerboarding that usually means the GPU is artifacting due to VRAM stability issues, and that is way outside of the browser's scope. It is, however, very possible that Pale Moon in that case exposes the problem more readily than browsers using slower async rendering processes or Skia for compositing page content, and the like.