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Has the battery life issue improved with Firefox at all in the last year or two? I had to choose between degoogled-chromium and Safari because videos drained my

Has the battery life issue improved with Firefox at all in the last year or two? I had to choose between degoogled-chromium and Safari because videos drained my battery so fast on my Macbook.

gizmo 4y ago
On m2 MBA firefox battery life is fantastic
- aliqot 4y ago
  It's not m1 with safari fantastic. Safari's bland though, so compromises get made.
  - smoldesu 4y ago
    If only Apple hadn't pulled a Google on us and let people use uBlock Origin in Safari unimpeded...
    - chaxor 4y ago
      Man, why is everyone so obsessed with uBO? It's fine, but not sufficient IMO - uMatrix is worlds better.
      - TylerE 4y ago
        Some of us don’t like 80% of the web being broken by default.
      - smoldesu 4y ago
        They're both great, but it's kinda irrelevant if they're both broken.
      - Fidgeting0026 4y ago
        What's better about uMatrix?
      - nsomaru 4y ago
        And no longer being maintained, so there’s that
        erichurkman 4y ago
        Do you mean uBlock Origin is no longer being maintained? https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases shows many recent releases?
        reciprocity 4y ago
        Parent comment is referring to uMatrix which is no longer maintained and last updated 20 July 2021.
      - viraptor 4y ago
        Until I see ads when using uBO, I don't have a reason to change. And I don't see ads.
      - aembleton 4y ago
        uMatrix can't do cosmetic filtering.
- gnicholas 4y ago
  Is this with lots of tabs open, or just in general?
d3nj4l 4y ago
Yeah, video on Firefox is so much worse than any other browser it's insane. Safari still has weird issues with pitch shifting videos playing at over 1x (1, it's an issue with webkit, as it affects Orion as well,) which makes it unviable for me as well. So I'm stuck with... Brave, despite having issues with it too. Sigh. 1: https://orionfeedback.org/d/149-poor-audio-quality-when-playing-videos-at-non-1x-speed/ https://orionfeedback.org/d/149-poor-audio-quality-when-play...
ziml77 4y ago
Issue is still there. I tried using it again a few weeks ago and it had significantly higher power usage on my M1 MBP than Chromium browsers.
btdmaster 4y ago
Have you tried H264 video? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/h264ify/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/h264ify/ (I was reading https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1736878 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1736878, which suggested VP9 is not yet there.)
boarush 4y ago
Even if the battery life is not that good as with Safari, there's nothing like Multi-Account Containers extension on other browsers. Helps a lot with separating accounts with added conveniences. Can't really go back to any other browser after having used containers on Firefox!

Has the battery life issue improved with Firefox at all in the last year or two? I had to choose between degoogled-chromium and Safari because videos drained my battery so fast on my Macbook.

gizmo 4y ago

On m2 MBA firefox battery life is fantastic

aliqot 4y ago
It's not m1 with safari fantastic. Safari's bland though, so compromises get made.
- smoldesu 4y ago
  If only Apple hadn't pulled a Google on us and let people use uBlock Origin in Safari unimpeded...
  - chaxor 4y ago
    Man, why is everyone so obsessed with uBO? It's fine, but not sufficient IMO - uMatrix is worlds better.
    - TylerE 4y ago
      Some of us don’t like 80% of the web being broken by default.
    - smoldesu 4y ago
      They're both great, but it's kinda irrelevant if they're both broken.
    - Fidgeting0026 4y ago
      What's better about uMatrix?
    - nsomaru 4y ago
      And no longer being maintained, so there’s that
      - erichurkman 4y ago
        Do you mean uBlock Origin is no longer being maintained? https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases shows many recent releases?
        reciprocity 4y ago
        Parent comment is referring to uMatrix which is no longer maintained and last updated 20 July 2021.
    - viraptor 4y ago
      Until I see ads when using uBO, I don't have a reason to change. And I don't see ads.
    - aembleton 4y ago
      uMatrix can't do cosmetic filtering.
gnicholas 4y ago
Is this with lots of tabs open, or just in general?

d3nj4l 4y ago

Yeah, video on Firefox is so much worse than any other browser it's insane. Safari still has weird issues with pitch shifting videos playing at over 1x (1, it's an issue with webkit, as it affects Orion as well,) which makes it unviable for me as well. So I'm stuck with... Brave, despite having issues with it too. Sigh. 1: https://orionfeedback.org/d/149-poor-audio-quality-when-playing-videos-at-non-1x-speed/ https://orionfeedback.org/d/149-poor-audio-quality-when-play...

ziml77 4y ago

Issue is still there. I tried using it again a few weeks ago and it had significantly higher power usage on my M1 MBP than Chromium browsers.

btdmaster 4y ago

Have you tried H264 video? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/h264ify/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/h264ify/ (I was reading https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1736878 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1736878, which suggested VP9 is not yet there.)

boarush 4y ago

Even if the battery life is not that good as with Safari, there's nothing like Multi-Account Containers extension on other browsers. Helps a lot with separating accounts with added conveniences. Can't really go back to any other browser after having used containers on Firefox!