@svenanders I have Firefox 140.4.0 ESR with Compositing: WebRender
@Taxidriver Well, I get a steady 120fps in the newest Google Chrome on my MacBook Pro M4.
@HerrNove Thanks, that helps! 🙂 Which Firefox version are you using? Could you also open about:support and tell me what “Compositing” says under Graphics? No need to change any settings.
Of course games and videos run faster with Chrome, because most of the money for Firefox comes from G**gle (duh), but as I wrote on my site: https://matei.one/invidious.php?v=kJAGzGDMahc "Browsers are not optimised for playing videos, so you will get much better performance and energy efficiency if you use a specialised program."
@RCBandit Happy birthday! /// @svenanders Firefox/Linux: 30 FPS / Chromium/Linux with HW acceleration: 60 FPS / Chromium/Linux without HW acceleration: 1 [sic] FPS. Did not expect the last value, but the Firefox/Chromium difference is something I have often experienced: Chrome’s engine seems better optimized for video and games.
Yes he did, he got 30 FPS at most and used a much newer version than I do. I would have been interested to see what Mr. x29retaliator did, but he was afraid to give anything to anyone else and ran away... Working native port of Stunts with 8 multiplayer over Internet About "something I can improve on my side": "...the path towards a new beginning starts within you."
@HerrNove Thanks for testing! Did you also try PlayStunts in Firefox on the same laptop? If so, roughly what FPS did you get, and which Firefox version? That would help me check whether there’s something I can improve on my side 🙂
Speaking of which, I did put a game which can be played "directly" in the browser on my site (which I don't recommend, but anyway), i.e. Chequered Flag for ZX Spectrum from 1983, because I found an emulator which also works with Firefox 10 from 2012. The car actually moves better than in Grand Prix Circuit from 1988 (don't know if anyone's interested) and there's also more landscape around the track. When I was using a ZX Spectrum I had the impression that Grand Prix Circuit was better, which it isn't, but I had only seen from some distance and for a few minutes in 1990. When I played with it ~20 years later, different story (almost unplayable). Links: https://matei.one/oprog.html#online https://www.retrogames.cz/play_413-DOS.php
Yes, we play with game from 37 years ago, but we need hardware at least 10000 times faster than we needed then. This is progress.
@svenanders Yes, Chromium with HW acceleration runs at 60 FPS on my Debian laptop. As always, Firefox seems to lack some video optimizations. Good to know, and thanks for the tip!