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		eyegor on Oct 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dramatically reduced power usage in Firefox 70 on ... I hope that 'bgra' was at least a typo of 'rgba'

kornholi on Oct 22, 2019 [–]

BGRA is a "weird" convention in the graphics world that goes back to at least OS/2 bitmaps, when there was no wrong answer, and has stuck since then. Since early GPUs targeted Windows (where BGRA is the native format for GDI/D2D), it makes sense that it made it this far :)

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