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My 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
by nickjj 2y ago
My 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.