Originally posted by ezst036
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As the 3 months age of the bug report show.
It seems that Mozilla doesn't care that without hardware acceleration many laptops consume more power, overheat and are louder because of the always spinning fans.
I can't believe that it was working fine, without disabling the sandbox and now they cannot or don't want to fix the regression, no matter how many disadvantages it has and how important it is for Linux users, including for those with portable PCs / consoles like Steam Deck!
But yet they have the time to always break the UI and usability with the always obsession of removing more free space, in the worst possible way where the width of screens is more than enough for everything.
Glad I saved the deb files (for Firefox and its translation files) for version 97 and I'm able to downgrade to have working hardware acceleration.
I wonder WTF will the Snap guys will do with the always-forced-upgraded to latest version Snap version.
I assume the situation is similar for the Flatpak guys as Flatpak doesn't allow you to download the full binary of the version that you want and save it in case of problems (at least from Flathub)
Mozilla seems to be on a path where it treats Linux users like third world citizens breaking even the long awaited hardware acceleration and refusing to fix the dam regression while having time to break the UI more and more.
I think I never liked too much their priorities and it seems they continue the same while wondering why Linux distros are switching from Firefox to other browsers as the default browser and many users are leaving Firefox in general.
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