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Funny enough, I just posted on Mastodon looking for recommendations of other browsers to try. While I love the flexibility and openness that Firefox brings, th
by Neff 3y ago
Funny enough, I just posted on Mastodon looking for recommendations of other browsers to try.
While I love the flexibility and openness that Firefox brings, there is a resource issue for me on my macbook pro. I have to spend a lot of time in Google Meets for work, and video conferencing via Firefox seems to redline the computer... It sounds like a jet engine and I wind up thermal throttling to the point that my machine becomes completely unresponsive.
I'd love to stay with Firefox - especially for the cross-device tab sharing and search - but the need for something stable is superseding my want to use a non-Google browser.
- thesuitonym 3y agoI wonder if Google would have any vested interest in making Meets a bad experience in Firefox... No, it must be Firefox that's wrong!
- Neff 3y agoI have no doubt that Google is hamstringing performance on Firefox. But that is far outside of my sphere of control so I am focusing on the things I can effect. Another member recommended disabling hardware acceleration so that is the first thing I'll try. If you have any other recommendations on how I can reduce the impact of the issue I'd love to hear them.
- paintballboi07 3y agoHave you tried disabling hardware acceleration?
- Neff 3y agoI haven't. That was recommended to me by someone else and something I am going to look into. I would have assumed that offloading the video processing to the dedicated GPU would be a good thing, but hopefully that helps with the problem.
- irae 3y agoI used Safari for years and it is so easy to open Chrome just for Google Meet. It is way less annoying than one would imagine
- raytube 3y ago[dead]