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why does chrome play 4k so badly

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so my chrome cant play 4K video very well but it works fine on firefox any one no why? fix?

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because it sucks, use Firefox

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use firefox

but thats the only thing opinion that firefox is good at 

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but thats the only thing opinion that firefox is good at

you can use both
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just make the switch to Firefox bro, it's faster and obviously does 4K better

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just make the switch to Firefox bro, it's faster and obviously does 4K better

where do you watch 4k on the internet?
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where do you watch 4k on the internet?

i don't but you just said that it can display 4K

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It might not be using hardware acceleration. Check your cpu usage in task manager when you play the video in Chrome and compare it to Firefox. If it's a YouTube video, you can also right click it then go to "stats for nerds" to see if it's using software or hardware decoding. There might be a fix by not using the native adobe flash plug-in, but I have yet to test it with 4k.

Also, 4k YouTube actually looks better even on a 1080p monitor because of fewer compression artifacts then 1080p.

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