August 19, 2026 at 07:55
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Now this is cool! NVIDIA has just added Firefox to the list of browsers allowed to run GeForce NOW. One computer, one tab, and more than 2,000 PC games now launchdrive
That’s the whole concept behind NVIDIA’s cloud gaming service: an RTX machine on their end, and a video stream on yours. Your computer does nothing but decode that video – no installation required, no beefy GPU needed.
GeForce NOW is a bit different from Xbox Cloud Gaming though, since it lets you play the games you’ve already bought – it’s not a fixed catalogue with open access. GeForce NOW connects to your Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG, Xbox PC Game Pass, and Ubisoft Connect accounts, then opens the library you’ve already paid for.
Firefox meanwhile keeps all its usual browser tricks. You can leave a Discord call in Split View, pull up a game walkthrough in another tab, then go fullscreen when the match starts. No more having to switch to that weak browser called Chrome when the gaming urge strikes ^^.
Mozilla is promising up to 1440p and up to 120 frames per second, and makes clear that this ceiling is reserved for Ultimate subscribers. Below that,
the Performance tier
also gets 1440p but tops out at 60 fps. What Ultimate really buys you, though, is smoothness, access to RTX 5080 machines, and the shortest queues.
The other cap is more annoying in my opinion: Performance and Ultimate subscriptions are both limited to 100 hours of gameplay per month, with up to 15 unused hours rolling over to the next month. That still works out to just over three hours a day, but it’s not really unlimited anymore.
There’s still one problem I see with this announcement: it’s Windows only. Firefox on macOS and Linux isn’t supported, and nobody has said yet whether it will be… Bummer… Then again, Linux gamers do have
their native GeForce NOW client
, which just came out of beta, so that helps a little – but still…
To give it a try, update Firefox, head to
play.geforcenow.com
and sign in. For its part, NVIDIA promises more details at Gamescom on August 25.
- https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/faq/
- https://play.geforcenow.com
- https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-nvidia-geforce-now-partnership/
This article was originally written in French and automatically translated. Read the original.
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