This has been bothering me long enough that I figured I’d check to see if anyone else is having the same issue, and more importantly, if there’s a fix.

Some websites, like Google Earth or various weather radar sites get so slow that they are unusable in Firefox.

When I load the same sites in Edge, it’s blazing fast, as I’d expect.

Even Librewolf chugs on these sites.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS: First, thanks for all the input, guys.

I wanted to say that I’ve tried a fresh FF profile, and the same slowness happens in Google Earth.

I also confirmed that hardware acceleration is enabled.

This problem isn’t on all websites. For example, playing www.slowroads.io actually gives a higher framerate on FF than it does on Edge. So it seems to be that certain websites just suck ass.

Some of you have said that Google Earth on FF works perfectly fine… on linux. At least it seems not to be a FF problem. LOL

EDIT: Opera browser is just as smooth as Edge with G Earth.

POSSIBLE SOLUTION?? Ok, so even though I was able to confirm that hardware acceleration was enabled, and the GPU was active while using FF, and the about:support showed that webrender was enabled, I noticed that on about:config the gfx.webrender.all setting was set to false.

So, I enabled it, and tried again. Google Earth seems much smoother (not as good as edge, but better than before), and Tube Archivist no longer seems to freeze while a video is being played.

Could this be the reason for my issues? If so, why was this option set to false by default?

  • Epzillon@lemmy.ml
    4·
    6 months ago

    I run LibreWolf and Twitch won’t even let me log in. Even when spoofing the user agent they have client side measures to prevent you from logging in unless you’re using FF or Chrome.

    If anyone has faced or solved this issue I’d love to know.

    • ponik
      1·
      6 months ago

      My issue was with kindle – or read dot amazon – in Librewolf. The partial solution i fpund was crearing a new profile with the same extensions intalled in the default profile, with the addition of Canvas, for enhance fingerprint protection. Then, in the Librewolf-specific settings disable their default fingerprint protection. For me is a partial solution because every time i want to read a kindle book from the browser, y need to launch the firefox profile wizard, then select the profile for read dot amazon, then login, and finally open the book.