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Have they fixed the issue with excessive resource consumption when using Firefox on a Retina MacBook?
by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Have they fixed the issue with excessive resource consumption when using Firefox on a Retina MacBook?
- insulanian 7y ago+1 I tried to switch to FF on multiple occasions, but it's a CPU hog on MacBook. Why is this issue ignored for so long?
- fucking_tragedy 7y agoBased on what I saw the last time I checked Mozilla's bug tracker, the issue has a low priority and no one is actively working to resolve it. From what I understand, it's a low level rendering issue.
- pcwalton 7y agoThat's not true. There was a roadmap posted yesterday and patches to begin to address the issue landed this week, including a new preference to opt into Core Animation. This is Markus' top priority at present. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522 Source: I wrote the initial version of those patches, though I think Markus has basically rewritten them all at this point.
- fucking_tragedy 7y agoMy mistake, I hadn't checked on the status in nearly a year. Glad to hear that progress is being made. Thanks for the update and patches!
- pcwalton 7y ago"Resource consumption" in the parent comment refers to power efficiency, specifically GPU blits. That issue has not been ignored. I don't know what "CPU hog" refers to; the issue is not about CPU usage.
- insulanian 7y agoIt's consuming ~20% CPU in idle on my machine (MacBook Pro Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015, 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5, 8 GB 1867 MHz DDR3, macOS Mojave 10.14.6)