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Why not just use Firefox?

• techntoke 6y ago
  I keep seeing people say that but as a Linux user, Chromium has hardware acceleration and works better with Wayland.
  • RMPR 6y ago
    Did you try Firefox-Wayland lately? I use both chromium-freeworld and firefox-wayland on Wayland, and no problems so far. Also, hardware acceleration is meant to land in Firefox 76[0] 0: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619258 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1619258
    • techntoke 6y ago
      Yes and yes, unfortunately can't wait around for Mozilla. This has been a problem for years now. Even with Mozilla's new official VPN service, and similar to their password manager, they did not start with support for Linux and it is always on the backburner. Until they want to prioritize open source first I am not interested in their solutions. I use chromium on Arch and it has hardware acceleration and everything else I can adjust through my policy file.
• esperent 6y ago
  I've recently switched from Chrome to FF on Android. It's better in many ways, but it's noticeably and frustratingly slower on nearly all websites. For example, trying to minimize a comment on HN is now very frustrating as there's a >1 second delay which frequently results in me tap the target multiple times causing all kinds of weirdness.
  • dhimes 6y ago
    That might be an android thing.
  • cosmojg 6y ago
    Are you running Firefox Preview/Nightly? I've found them to be even faster than Chrome on my device.