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> Am I the only one that feels this way? Nope. I really want to like Firefox but its performance is just so much worse across the board than Chrome. Another e
by s_kilk 9y ago
> Am I the only one that feels this way?
Nope. I really want to like Firefox but its performance is just so much worse across the board than Chrome.
Another example is video playback: Firefox, when viewing video, heats up my laptop to the point where the fans kick in at full blast. Chrome stays nice and cool on the same material. The difference in battery life is noticeable too.
Sorry Firefox, you need to do better.
- sp332 9y agoIf it's making that much of a difference in heat, it's probably using a software renderer instead of passing the decoding to the GPU. Check (Menu)->Help->Troubleshooting Information and see if it says "Supports Hardware H264 Decoding: No;". If you can't fix it, I recommend using an extension that adds video URLs to your VLC playlist. VLC supports playing YouTube URLs natively.
- pcwalton 9y agoFor VP8 and VP9, Firefox and Chrome use the same video decoding backends, so it's likely not video decoding that is causing the problem. For H.264, Firefox uses the OS-provided codecs; I'm not sure what Chrome does, but in any case that's the only possible solution for Firefox due to patent issues.