Comment by flossly

5 hours ago

I remember waiting on the Mozilla project to deliver something that could browse as well on linux as closed source browsers on windows/mac did.

It... took... long...

But there it was. And it still works.

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embedding-shape  5 hours ago

Was this recent? Because Firefox were the browser that worked better than all the rest, for quite many years, maybe 2005-2010, and Firefox had no competition basically until Chrome arrived on the scene.

Just the fact that Firefox got browser tabs before anyone else, and Firebug, just took it to another level compared to all the other browsers available at the time.

  • vlovich123  4 hours ago

    Your history is off. Opera was the first mainstream browser to implement tabs and boy was Opera also much faster than Firefox at its peak (both UI, resource usage, and rendering) which overlaps that “peak” Firefox period by a lot.

    Firefox was great because it was open source but it wasn’t ever really the “best” browser - it was the best open source browser.

  • saidinesh5  5 hours ago

    > Hardware accelerated video decoding (for video playback or for WebRTC) is available via VA-API for both X11 and Wayland. Since firefox-101.0.1-4 package it's enabled by default for Intel/AMD users.

    From https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firefox_Hardware_acceleration

    I think that was around 2022-23.

    I remember this affecting my laptop video watching a lot. Google meet feeling sluggish on Firefox is also something I remember until very recently..

    • sspiff  3 hours ago

      Google still tries to sabotage Firefox experience on Google Apps, especially Meet but also YouTube and sometimes Google Sheets/Docs as well.

      They want to degrade the experience just enough to get you fed up with FF and go (back) to Chrome, without making it absolutely obvious that's what they're doing.

      They often label these things as "regressions" because they don't test on Firefox and take forever to fix them. But I can't help but believe it's intentional.

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  • lukan  5 hours ago

    Firefox was bad on linux for a long time. Even running the windows ff build via wine/proton got you better performance than the "native" build (I think that was around 10 years ago).

    • le-mark  3 hours ago

      Much longer than 10 years! I’ve been on Linux since 2008 an it was never a problem.