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Firefox's user base is also full of old Intel integrated GPUs that don't support bindless. The day WebRender can start relying on it cannot come soon enough but it's a long way off…

(I'm the author of the blog post) Yes, WebRender could repack it's texture atlases. A lot of stuff of various sizes go in there so I would not want to rely on repacking large amoun…

It's a matter of allocating time to implement the missing parts and get it to work properly. Right now the people who could do this are working on other things but it will get done…

As pcwalton said, there is a whole lot of things on the web that are very cheap to render on a GPU if done right. For these things, a well tuned gpu renderer can easily outperform …

Actually, Gecko's compositor knows the screen space invalid region and scissors out the rest when compositing. The invalid region is passed to the window manager. Chromium also doe…

It depends. For a lot of web pages, the things webrender do are actually very simple and can be faster than Firefox's compositor even if there was no painting required. The expensi…

Let's clarify, WebRender doesn't do anything at all if nothing changed. If the content of the window is static then webrender won't wake your gpu up until it really needs to. There…

What? Whether or not a browser matters depends on the amount of people using it, not on whether you can install it on several operating systems.

I find that gtk3 themes are easy to tweak (and more so than gtk2 ones), have you tried to look at the (pseudo-)css and modify it to suit your taste?

Firefox uses GTK to draw native-looking widgets. Basically, Gecko passes an X11 pixmap to GTK2 the latter draws the buttons/scroll bars/etc. into it with xrender. This means that F…

Sure! This post is like an invitation to discuss the subject, right? "over-engineering" was not the point anyway. The title is a lie. The point was: dont be afraid of making mistak…

I don't know about this particular series of comments, but I second him on the idea that often some comments on HN smell like "If I troll harder I'm gonna look cooler". It somewhat…

For what it's worth, the rubber band thing having a patent on it, I am not sure shipping it in Firefox is only about implementing it. I do know sometimes patches wait in bugzilla f…