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Firefox performance on my older laptop just gets worse and worse. Just a few tabs open to the wrong websites can peg CPU usage at 100%. As far as I can tell thi
by cdr 11y ago
Firefox performance on my older laptop just gets worse and worse. Just a few tabs open to the wrong websites can peg CPU usage at 100%. As far as I can tell this is mainly due to Mozilla "improving" the guts of their rendering at some point and basically no longer supporting rendering with the laptop's terrible Intel graphics chip, forcing software rendering instead.
Older hardware definitely often pays a price for supporting newer features.
- tehbeard 11y agoSame issue here, with the added bonus of Firefox assuming my touchpad is one it must "fix", and breaking scrolling with page up/down. Meanwhile chrome on that same machine runs great, albeit eating enough memory that switching applications is noticeable.