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I already had Manifest v2 extensions, specifically uBlock removed from Chrome. There are solutions to extend this to mid-year, and I can report that they work (
by precommunicator 2y ago
I already had Manifest v2 extensions, specifically uBlock removed from Chrome. There are solutions to extend this to mid-year, and I can report that they work (search for ExtensionManifestV2Availability)
- Liquix 2y agowhy not just switch to a less hostile browser now instead of drawing it out for a few more months?
- nickjj 2y agoMy machine is 10 years old. With Firefox video playback on YouTube is choppy even at 1080p. With Chrome it's perfectly smooth. If Firefox performed better for me I would have switched to it long ago. This is on Windows 10 btw.
- homebrewer 2y agoLook into about:support, what does `HARDWARE_VIDEO_DECODING` and sibling features say? If it's off, you could try force-enabling video acceleration by setting `gfx.webrender.all` to `true` in about:config. I've had it force-enabled for years with no issues.
- nickjj 2y agoHARDWARE_VIDEO_DECODING does not exist but there's a bunch of rendering options. They are all set to default and available except for a few things like DIRECT2D is disabled and WEBGPU / REMOTE_CANVAS is blocked. gfx.webrender.all was set to false. I will give true a try. Thanks.
- nickjj 2y agoSo it's been a week. I have not noticed any issues with Firefox. I didn't even adjust this setting. Everything is a lot smoother now than it was about 3-4 years when I last tried, even with the same hardware. Happily using Firefox as my daily browser now.
- precommunicator 2y agoStuff can change. Who knows. I might switch platforms until then so my choice might become invalid. I might die. No reason to do it now, when there is plenty of time. I'm a happy Firefox user on mobile though (yeah, I know, I know the recent changes in their legal stuff)