In mpv, GLX vs. EGL doesn't matter at all for fps in benchmark mode. Why would it be an issue for a browser?
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Originally posted by aufkrawall View PostIn mpv, GLX vs. EGL doesn't matter at all for fps in benchmark mode. Why would it be an issue for a browser?
That's why I switched from Firefox to Chromium months ago. It simply works better on Linux for me. After Firefox dropped classic addons in 57 I have no reason to switch back.
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Originally posted by dragon321 View Post
Because using GLX ties you to X11 (Xorg or Xwayland). Without EGL you can't use hardware acceleration on Wayland without Xwayland.
That's why I switched from Firefox to Chromium months ago. It simply works better on Linux for me. After Firefox dropped classic addons in 57 I have no reason to switch back.
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Originally posted by dragon321 View PostBecause using GLX ties you to X11 (Xorg or Xwayland). Without EGL you can't use hardware acceleration on Wayland without Xwayland.
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Originally posted by Anvil View PostChromes Addons are even worse than Firefox's WebExtensions yanno.
Originally posted by aufkrawall View PostYeah, I'm aware of that. I was just arguing that I don't experience a performance issue with EGL in another program, unlike the Firefox dev stated.
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Originally posted by dragon321 View PostBecause? WebExtension is compatible with Chrome API. You can use WE addons on Chrome too with few changes.
(eg. Quirks of how Firefox internals handle downloads make it a major rearchitecting project to implement an onDeterminingFilename event which runs after the site-suggested filename is known but before the download starts, but Chrome lacks the webRequest.StreamFilter API, which is necessary to properly implement something like NoScript with the capability to rewrite the incoming HTTP response before the browser starts to act on it.)
Beyond that, Chrome has no userChrome.css that you can use to re-create most of the tweaks offered in Classic Theme Restorer.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostI don't get it... Firefox has all sorts of known hardware acceleration issues in Linux, and yet this guy is hesitant about EGL because of some outdated and currently ambiguous performance results? Is it really that hard to do another modern test, and analyze why it's slower (if it still is)? That doesn't sound like too much to ask...
I don't know how much of a performance impact EGL has over GLX (whether good or bad), but I doubt it should be enough to drag down Firefox enough to prevent using EGL, unless improperly implemented.Last edited by dfx.; 26 May 2018, 11:51 PM.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostI don't get it... Firefox has all sorts of known hardware acceleration issues in Linux, and yet this guy is hesitant about EGL because of some outdated and currently ambiguous performance results? Is it really that hard to do another modern test, and analyze why it's slower (if it still is)? That doesn't sound like too much to ask...
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