I really could not tell if it is better or not. But I've had 2 problems that seems to never be resolved:
- using hardware accelerated video decoding is bizarre if the video uses VP9 (even disabling it or forcing AV1) it stutters from time to time;
- watching a video in the background and playing game at the same time, with hybrid graphics, freezes/hangs kWin, then, the video that was playing in the browser becomes green and everything that used either iGPU or dGPU starts to struggle and stutters a lot, forcing me to log in and out, i. e. restart my session manually;
The last one may be because of Nvidia (yes, my fault for having this card) prime offload in Wayland, but even so, I did not find any topic related to this, that has not otherwise been solved in bugzilla, and honestly I am kind of afraid to report this and be met with judging questions; I'd like to debug some more, but I don't have the patience.
These are the two ever lasting headaches that I have with Firefox. None of this bothers me enough to leave Firefox though.
Anyway, my congratulations to the team. Today, I have successfully converted 5 people to use Firefox.
Hardware decoding is sadly somewhat of a mess in Linux... I'm guessing that with most of those issues, Firefox is interfacing with the various video coding APIs correctly, and some driver or something is just buggy. If you're on a desktop, turning off hardware video decoding altogether might be worth it.
Pro Tip: There is a Firefox extension that forces YouTube to use H.264. Even though my machine does hardware accelerated VP9 I've found it to be unreliable. Switching to H.264 makes YouTube videos play smoothly. All other videos sites use H.264 by default so this only really needs to be done for YouTube.
That second point is something that drives me CRAZY. For years I would keep YouTube or Twitch streams open on the second monitor. Now I deal with constant fps loss, video stutters or freezing. Absolutely bizarre regression in performance.
- using hardware accelerated video decoding is bizarre if the video uses VP9 (even disabling it or forcing AV1) it stutters from time to time;
- watching a video in the background and playing game at the same time, with hybrid graphics, freezes/hangs kWin, then, the video that was playing in the browser becomes green and everything that used either iGPU or dGPU starts to struggle and stutters a lot, forcing me to log in and out, i. e. restart my session manually;
The last one may be because of Nvidia (yes, my fault for having this card) prime offload in Wayland, but even so, I did not find any topic related to this, that has not otherwise been solved in bugzilla, and honestly I am kind of afraid to report this and be met with judging questions; I'd like to debug some more, but I don't have the patience.
These are the two ever lasting headaches that I have with Firefox. None of this bothers me enough to leave Firefox though.
Anyway, my congratulations to the team. Today, I have successfully converted 5 people to use Firefox.