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In this vein, I can’t even register for GitHub on Firefox due to laggy animations. Works fine in Chrome. Did they even test it?

andygeorge 3y ago
huh? works just fine for me in Firefox
- shadowgovt 3y ago
  I'd be willing to wager the X Factor is graphics card configuration and a card optimized for high performance 3D rendering (including having the drivers installed properly to leverage those features). There's a bit of a correlation between Firefox users and users who are mostly content that their hardware supports explicitly a 2D desktop GUI and is not optimized for anything fancier. But nowadays, the browser itself is a 3D application because the 3D compositing pipeline is also the high performance 2D compositing pipeline.
  - andygeorge 3y ago
    Dunno, I use FF on all my PCs with a variety of configurations and do not experience the GitHub slowdown referenced earlier.
WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
> I can’t even register for GitHub on Firefox due to laggy animations. You aren't kidding. On Firefox 120 it ramps up a Xeon core to >50% and floors my GPU 3D at 100%. I opened on Opera and CPU is negligible, GPU is steady at 15% (which still seems high for a throwaway web background). for those playing along at home: https://github.com/signup?source=login https://github.com/signup?source=login
- AntronX 3y ago
  My CPU was at 27% (i3-4130) and 27 watts power use vs. 11w at idle. Added uBlock filter: github.com##div.signup-stars and CPU was back to 1%. Background stars animation is the culprit.
shadowgovt 3y ago
On a browser with like 5% uptake? I'd be willing to wager they didn't test it on Firefox. They probably didn't test it on Brave either.
- pacifika 3y ago
  I’m sure everyone is a 5% edge case somewhere
  - solardev 3y ago
    Poor Firefox users are 5% edge cases everywhere :(
- ToValueFunfetti 3y ago
  I can't support this with data, but I expect the percent is a bit higher among potential GitHub users
  - shadowgovt 3y ago
    I'm not sure. My total lack of data suggests that they are GitLab users.
- pharmakom 3y ago
  For GitHub, Firefox usage will be way higher. And besides “Microsoft <3 Open Source” right? … Right?

andygeorge 3y ago

huh? works just fine for me in Firefox

shadowgovt 3y ago
I'd be willing to wager the X Factor is graphics card configuration and a card optimized for high performance 3D rendering (including having the drivers installed properly to leverage those features). There's a bit of a correlation between Firefox users and users who are mostly content that their hardware supports explicitly a 2D desktop GUI and is not optimized for anything fancier. But nowadays, the browser itself is a 3D application because the 3D compositing pipeline is also the high performance 2D compositing pipeline.
- andygeorge 3y ago
  Dunno, I use FF on all my PCs with a variety of configurations and do not experience the GitHub slowdown referenced earlier.

WarOnPrivacy 3y ago

> I can’t even register for GitHub on Firefox due to laggy animations. You aren't kidding. On Firefox 120 it ramps up a Xeon core to >50% and floors my GPU 3D at 100%. I opened on Opera and CPU is negligible, GPU is steady at 15% (which still seems high for a throwaway web background). for those playing along at home: https://github.com/signup?source=login https://github.com/signup?source=login

AntronX 3y ago
My CPU was at 27% (i3-4130) and 27 watts power use vs. 11w at idle. Added uBlock filter: github.com##div.signup-stars and CPU was back to 1%. Background stars animation is the culprit.

shadowgovt 3y ago

On a browser with like 5% uptake? I'd be willing to wager they didn't test it on Firefox. They probably didn't test it on Brave either.

pacifika 3y ago
I’m sure everyone is a 5% edge case somewhere
- solardev 3y ago
  Poor Firefox users are 5% edge cases everywhere :(
ToValueFunfetti 3y ago
I can't support this with data, but I expect the percent is a bit higher among potential GitHub users
- shadowgovt 3y ago
  I'm not sure. My total lack of data suggests that they are GitLab users.
pharmakom 3y ago
For GitHub, Firefox usage will be way higher. And besides “Microsoft <3 Open Source” right? … Right?