firefox HW accel - this is nice....!

[lejeczek]

fellow readers,
I'd like to share a pleasant observation on Firefox running very smoothing & nicely with HW acceleration forced on. Having ~25 windows with ~10 tabs each I not only notice a change in user-exeprience as oppose when HWA is off, but more importantly system is stable, no problems. Intel on the other hand (Fedora 21 + IvyBridge) is a disaster, hangs whole gnome and needs to be killed, Firefox that is.
So this is Fedora 22 rawhide and I've had it on only for a few days but this Firefox 35 behaves! Or rather Radeon + kernel + Mesa 10.5 do.
greetings.
ps. AMD A10 PRO-7350B R6 in a HP EliteBook 745 G2

[89c51]

fellow readers,
I'd like to share a pleasant observation on Firefox running very smoothing & nicely with HW acceleration forced on. Having ~25 windows with ~10 tabs each I not only notice a change in user-exeprience as oppose when HWA is off, but more importantly system is stable, no problems. Intel on the other hand (Fedora 21 + IvyBridge) is a disaster, hangs whole gnome and needs to be killed, Firefox that is.
So this is Fedora 22 rawhide and I've had it on only for a few days but this Firefox 35 behaves! Or rather Radeon + kernel + Mesa 10.5 do.
greetings.
ps. AMD A10 PRO-7350B R6 in a HP EliteBook 745 G2

My experience is quite different but i am not on 10.5 mesa. Up to 10.4 it freezes firefox quite often. Usually on Vimeo.

[lejeczek]

My experience is quite different but i am not on 10.5 mesa. Up to 10.4 it freezes firefox quite often. Usually on Vimeo.

I recommend Rawhide, it's 99% stable, only main problem I experience now is Automatic Suspend, it does not work for me but manual still does and I've been on Rawhide for a few months now. Also Gnome lost Alt+Esc to switch between any window, now only switches between two windows. Maybe Wayland also misbehaves.