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Firefox to the rescue (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by IngrownMink4@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, with how much they’re dropping the ball, their browser won’t be good for long.

I hope it will last, this trajectory has been going for long but the browsing experience hasn't been affected yet!

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I'm mainly concerned about whether they'll keep improving to keep up with Chrome. Firefox already has a lot of performance and resource utilization issues, but unlike Chrome who hogs your entire computer, it's the opposite for Firefox. At least on Linux, it only lets a tab use two CPU threads, whereas Chrome can use all of them, I found out when I had to a CPU rendering benchmark to stress test my new processor, and I couldn't bothered to install something so I just looked up online ones in the browser. Also, as far as I know Firefox has no GPU acceleration support.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also, as far as I know Firefox has no GPU acceleration support.

I am pretty sure it does!

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe just not on Linux then.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

It does on my Linux install!

[–] IngrownMink4@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Firefox has no GPU acceleration support.

Firefox uses WebRender. WebRender uses GPU acceleration.