Firefox 69 Gearing Up For Release With Linux Performance Improvements

[Veto]

If only they would enable HW accelerated video playback in Linux...
Currently I have to Copy Link and use mpv to watch Youtube without heat and fan noise. Years back you could install some plugins.
Anyone know of a good solution?

[amehaye]

RussianNeuroMancertthe standard Firefox package in the Ubuntu repositories supports Wayland. You have to start it from the command line, something like MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=true firefox

[franglais125]

RussianNeuroMancertthe standard Firefox package in the Ubuntu repositories supports Wayland. You have to start it from the command line, something like MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=true firefox

(cc RussianNeuroMancer ) You don't need to launch from the CLI. You can also modify the .desktop file like so:

cp /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/

And edit the Exec line in that file:

Exec=env MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox %u

[ShizzyG]

Nice.

[timofonic]

What about Servo and the Rustification?

[holunder]

If only they would enable HW accelerated video playback in Linux...
Currently I have to Copy Link and use mpv to watch Youtube without heat and fan noise. Years back you could install some plugins.
Anyone know of a good solution?

You could use the Add-On "Open With" and create a menu entry for mpv. (For anyone else: You also need to have youtube-dl installed for this to work. And youtube-dl knows much more sources than just YouTube, btw.)

[andyprough]

I build an alsa-enabled Firefox Nightly for running on an antiX system without systemd or pulseaudio. Nightly version 71 is a beast, handles anything you can throw at it.

I don't recall much about 69, other than that it was nice.

[andreduartesp]

If only they would enable HW accelerated video playback in Linux...
Currently I have to Copy Link and use mpv to watch Youtube without heat and fan noise. Years back you could install some plugins.
Anyone know of a good solution?

This is a bug with youtube itself, it uses a non standart js functions implemented only on Chromium, and a uses a slow polyfill on other browsesr.

[tildearrow]

RussianNeuroMancertthe standard Firefox package in the Ubuntu repositories supports Wayland. You have to start it from the command line, something like MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=true firefox

MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND? Why not just GDK_BACKEND?

[tildearrow]

Nice.

For what reason?