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I know it's proving the point in the article, but I thought I'd let you know Firefox can be configured to do hardware acceleration. There's a nice article in th

I know it's proving the point in the article, but I thought I'd let you know Firefox can be configured to do hardware acceleration. There's a nice article in the Arch Linux wiki that describes the steps needed to turn it on: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#Hardware_video_acceleration https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#Hardware_video_acce... I've done this and the battery life on my ThinkPad (Intel graphics) while watching videos in Firefox has improved heaps. My last 20% is around an hour instead of only 15mins. It's silly how it's turned off by default even though it works just fine. But again proving the point of the article I guess...

pizza234 5y ago
> It's silly how it's turned off by default even though it works just fine This can't be really stated based on anecdata; for example, my case has been unsuccessful - I had issues, so I had to disable it.
commoner 5y ago
Firefox has enabled hardware acceleration in GNOME Shell by default as of versions 84 (X11) and 85 (Wayland), if you are using AMD or Intel graphics.[2] The feature is enabled in KDE Plasma and XFCE by default (X11 only) as of version 88, also for AMD and Intel graphics.[2] [1] https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2021/01/10/firefox-were-finally-getting-hw-acceleration-on-linux/ https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2021/01/10/firefox-were-fin... [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1696495 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1696495
- kiwijamo 5y ago
  I believe you are referring to hardware acceleration for stuff other than video (which I guess is what WebRender is about). I have no problems with this, and indeed WebRender is enabled by default in my installation of Firefox 93, GNOME, Wayland, Intel graphics. Re-reading my post I realise I didn't specifically say hardware video acceleration -- this is where applications like Firefox does video decoding etc in the GPU instead of in software. This is not enabled by default on Linux yet.

pizza234 5y ago

> It's silly how it's turned off by default even though it works just fine This can't be really stated based on anecdata; for example, my case has been unsuccessful - I had issues, so I had to disable it.

commoner 5y ago

Firefox has enabled hardware acceleration in GNOME Shell by default as of versions 84 (X11) and 85 (Wayland), if you are using AMD or Intel graphics.[2] The feature is enabled in KDE Plasma and XFCE by default (X11 only) as of version 88, also for AMD and Intel graphics.[2] [1] https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2021/01/10/firefox-were-finally-getting-hw-acceleration-on-linux/ https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2021/01/10/firefox-were-fin... [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1696495 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1696495

kiwijamo 5y ago
I believe you are referring to hardware acceleration for stuff other than video (which I guess is what WebRender is about). I have no problems with this, and indeed WebRender is enabled by default in my installation of Firefox 93, GNOME, Wayland, Intel graphics. Re-reading my post I realise I didn't specifically say hardware video acceleration -- this is where applications like Firefox does video decoding etc in the GPU instead of in software. This is not enabled by default on Linux yet.