what is the point of hardware acceleration on firefox?

[skanky]

apart from making my gtx560 run at higher speeds, whats the point? its not like i'm playing 3d intensive games on it or anything.

can i switch it off somehow?

 

[skanky]

Load this page with HA turned on, scrolling should be very smooth, now turn HA off then reload the page and try to scroll with getting bad stuttering, I'd rather have smoother web page scrolling over a little rise in temps

tried that, could not see the difference with it off/on, let it all load the images, no sign of skipping or stuttering when pressing page down really quickly to scroll down.

i5 2500k @ 4.5ghz and gtx 560ti, 1920x1200 res, using firefox 5 currently with 28 tabs open --if it was stuttering on that, i'd be severely disappointed..

its definitely staying off for me (some nice ingame pics in that post though)