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At the same time, I can't shake off the dreadful feeling that it will eventually die one day. The market share keeps falling year by year.
What is the most realistic future for Firefox?
I run Firefox Nightly on my work mac (with Cylance) and have been seeing this. Luckily IT have happily whitelisted it and reported back to Cylance, but still slightly weird that a major application would be flagged like this.
> Additionally we'll ship an accelerated rendering pipeline for Linux/GNOME/X11 users for the first time, ever!
I'm seeing high CPU usage on YouTube after recent updates on Xubuntu. I think it started when they enabled GPU acceleration by default. Previously I could watch even FHD videos without much fan noise, but after recent updates, fans spin at the max speed by playing even 480p quality vids. Anyone else?
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I'm seeing high CPU usage on YouTube after recent updates on Xubuntu. I think it started when they enabled GPU acceleration by default. Previously I could watch even FHD videos without much fan noise, but after recent updates, fans spin at the max speed by playing even 480p quality vids. Anyone else?
GPU acceleration is not a magic bullet it seems. In our case drawing large SVGs suddenly becomes really slow when GPU rasterization is enabled. Chrome has the same problem. I really hope we will see more polishing in this area and maybe a cooperation between Chrome and Firefox developers?
I love Firefox, I use it everyday, I can't imagine using a browser without Tree Style Tab, or all the things that I can do in about:config. At the same time, I can't shake off the dreadful feeling that it will eventually die one day. The market share keeps falling year by year. What is the most realistic future for Firefox?
Mozilla also don't have the brand power to push their browser to people who don't actually care but just want the notification on google.com or youtube to go away, or had it bundled with flash player or their windows install or their AV program like a lot of Chrome's rise.
My hope is it bottoms out and finds a new stable equilibrium at brave/vivaldi levels. The question is if that's a large enough position to actually maintain a browser engine.
I love Firefox, I use it everyday, I can't imagine using a browser without Tree Style Tab, or all the things that I can do in about:config. At the same time, I can't shake off the dreadful feeling that it will eventually die one day. The market share keeps falling year by year. What is the most realistic future for Firefox?
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GPU acceleration is not a magic bullet it seems. In our case drawing large SVGs suddenly becomes really slow when GPU rasterization is enabled. Chrome has the same problem. I really hope we will see more polishing in this area and maybe a cooperation between Chrome and Firefox developers?
Thing is, when I play the same video with VLC which uses HW decoding, it doesn't even break a sweat. So I think there might be something wrong on the browser part...
Notable changes are that Apple Silicon support is now stable, and that this is the final release of Firefox to support Adobe Flash.
I had no idea they even still supported Flash?! I thought they changed their plugin API so many times that it would have been unsupported many years ago.