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Anyone else think the really significant change is going to be when Webrender finally enters the stable channel? It's already stable for me on nightly and is wh

by hd4 8y ago

Anyone else think the really significant change is going to be when Webrender finally enters the stable channel? It's already stable for me on nightly and is what makes the single largest difference to my experience, everything is so much smoother (instantaneous) and uses less resources. The reason I even switched away to Chrome from Firefox to start with was performance, I came back when FF's performance started eclipsing Chrome's again.

dingaling 8y ago
Webrender won't run on older intehrated GPUs which don't support the required OpenGL level ( 2.2? something like that ). For example it won't run on amy of our four home laptops. I can't imagine them enabling it by default until that user base is next to zero. I suppose they might prompt the user to flick a switch if supported but they'll still have to support Gecko for some time.
- IshKebab 8y ago
  Wow how old are those laptops?
- hd4 8y ago
  Those must be seriously old, because it runs fine for me on a 2010 laptop (on it's last legs) with a Nvidia GPU, it actually runs better than my other newer laptop which doesn't have a discrete GPU. Both have an Opengl version newer than 3.0 so that probably is the limiting factor.
dgllghr 8y ago
If it is stable for you in nightly, it might work for you in 61. Just enable gfx.webrender.enabled in about:config
- hd4 8y ago
  think the new option is actually gfx.webrender.all set to true, at least in nightly. edit: just tested http://output.jsbin.com/surane/quiet http://output.jsbin.com/surane/quiet in 61, doesn't seem to be enabled, going to try 62. Pretty sure they would have announced if it had been in 61, it's a huge addition, and it's probably coming in 62 when it's stable. edit2: neither is it enabled in 62 (beta), also tried with the gfx.webrender.enabled option set to true just in case.
  - cpeterso 8y ago
    WebRender only works on Firefox Nightly regardless of what prefs you set. The code is #ifdef'd off in Beta and Release channels while there are still known bugs in Nightly.
    - dgllghr 8y ago
      Good to know!
    - vanderZwan 8y ago
      > Firefox Nightly Aurora is considered Nightly for this purpose, right?

by hd4 8y ago

dingaling 8y ago

Webrender won't run on older intehrated GPUs which don't support the required OpenGL level ( 2.2? something like that ). For example it won't run on amy of our four home laptops. I can't imagine them enabling it by default until that user base is next to zero. I suppose they might prompt the user to flick a switch if supported but they'll still have to support Gecko for some time.

IshKebab 8y ago
Wow how old are those laptops?
hd4 8y ago
Those must be seriously old, because it runs fine for me on a 2010 laptop (on it's last legs) with a Nvidia GPU, it actually runs better than my other newer laptop which doesn't have a discrete GPU. Both have an Opengl version newer than 3.0 so that probably is the limiting factor.

dgllghr 8y ago

If it is stable for you in nightly, it might work for you in 61. Just enable gfx.webrender.enabled in about:config

hd4 8y ago
think the new option is actually gfx.webrender.all set to true, at least in nightly. edit: just tested http://output.jsbin.com/surane/quiet http://output.jsbin.com/surane/quiet in 61, doesn't seem to be enabled, going to try 62. Pretty sure they would have announced if it had been in 61, it's a huge addition, and it's probably coming in 62 when it's stable. edit2: neither is it enabled in 62 (beta), also tried with the gfx.webrender.enabled option set to true just in case.
- cpeterso 8y ago
  WebRender only works on Firefox Nightly regardless of what prefs you set. The code is #ifdef'd off in Beta and Release channels while there are still known bugs in Nightly.
  - dgllghr 8y ago
    Good to know!
  - vanderZwan 8y ago
    > Firefox Nightly Aurora is considered Nightly for this purpose, right?