Mozilla Firefox 85.0 Now Available As First 2021 Release

[monty11ez]

Type "about:config" on the search bar. Search for "media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled" and "gfx.webrender.all", then set them both to "True". Close Firefox, then start it using the command "MOZ_X11_EGL=1 firefox". To make that permanent you can edit the launching command of the icon or menu entries in the desktop environment you use (Gnome, KDE, XFCE, etc). If your GPU does not have acceleration for the VP9 codec, install the "h264fy" extension.

All this will reduce CPU usage, but will not turn it to zero. Here it dropped from ~30% to ~10% on a i7 3770k. And that is in both Firefox and Chrome with acceleration enabled.

Adding MOZ_X11_EGL=1 in the command string did not work for me on XFCE.

[evasb]

Can you explain further ?

Mozilla fires Servo's and Wasmtime team:
https://twitter.com/tschneidereit/st...68141953667074
Kills entire threat management team:
https://nitter.net/MichalPurzynski/s...20570885062657
Even LibreWolf project is not certain to continue after this:
https://gitlab.com/librewolf-communi...x/-/issues/124

They don't care about their core business and now Baker is talking about changing the internet do do "more" than deplatforming, dirtying Mozilla's name with political shit.
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/0...deplatforming/

Mozilla lost its way after Brendan Eich was forced to resign as a CEO, all technologies that made Firefox better (Rust, Servo, e10s) were under Eich's direction. Now we have a lawyer leech destroying what's left of Mozilla.

[cl333r]

Type "about:config" on the search bar. Search for "media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled" and "gfx.webrender.all", then set them both to "True". Close Firefox, then start it using the command "MOZ_X11_EGL=1 firefox". To make that permanent you can edit the launching command of the icon or menu entries in the desktop environment you use (Gnome, KDE, XFCE, etc). If your GPU does not have acceleration for the VP9 codec, install the "h264fy" extension.

All this will reduce CPU usage, but will not turn it to zero. Here it dropped from ~30% to ~10% on a i7 3770k. And that is in both Firefox and Chrome with acceleration enabled.

For me it halves the CPU usage but it still horrendously ineffective. mpv uses 10% CPU to play the same video, while Firefox went down from 120% to like 60%.

[M@GOid]

For me it halves the CPU usage but it still horrendously ineffective. mpv uses 10% CPU to play the same video, while Firefox went down from 120% to like 60%.

It is indeed less effective than dedicated video players. Out of curiosity, which one is your CPU, what are you using to measure CPU utilization and what DE you are using (Gnome, KDE, etc)?

[Quackdoc]

Mozilla fires Servo's and Wasmtime team:
https://twitter.com/tschneidereit/st...68141953667074
Kills entire threat management team:
https://nitter.net/MichalPurzynski/s...20570885062657
Even LibreWolf project is not certain to continue after this:
https://gitlab.com/librewolf-communi...x/-/issues/124

They don't care about their core business and now Baker is talking about changing the internet do do "more" than deplatforming, dirtying Mozilla's name with political shit.
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/0...deplatforming/

Mozilla lost its way after Brendan Eich was forced to resign as a CEO, all technologies that made Firefox better (Rust, Servo, e10s) were under Eich's direction. Now we have a lawyer leech destroying what's left of Mozilla.

I know its a waste of time, but I still hold hope that someday baker will be forced to resign and someone with an actual head for Foss and Mozilla will take over. especially considering that Firefox is still the only real competition to chrome, (sorry webkit, you just ain't good enough yet) and the only way I see forward for Firefox is to actually migrate to the servo engine and put a lot of resources into it, instead of what Mozilla did and used it as a playground after Mr.Eich was fired. but who knows. but then, servo has a lot of catchup needing to be done now

[bug77]

There are no caricatures of Snidely Whiplash lurking in the shadows on which to lay blame. As far as Eich is concerned, he could have stayed on at Mozilla - but it was his decision to leave. A good write up of exactly what happened is here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2...h=18d150e12158

It goes without saying however, that you cannot be the CEO of a business if you've lost the respect of your employees - and that is exactly what happened.

Why would he lose respect over a years old donation? It wasn't even to a foundation that trying to ban anything. He was just sacked in fear of possible lawsuits.

[gbcox]

Why would he lose respect over a years old donation? It wasn't even to a foundation that trying to ban anything. He was just sacked in fear of possible lawsuits.

Read the article from Forbes I linked to, it explains why he lost respect... he wasn't fired, he resigned - and he could have stayed at Mozilla if he wished.

[cl333r]

It is indeed less effective than dedicated video players. Out of curiosity, which one is your CPU, what are you using to measure CPU utilization and what DE you are using (Gnome, KDE, etc)?

KDE Plasma on X11 that comes with Ubuntu 20.10,
Mesa 20.3.x,
Radeon RX 570,
Core i5 (6 cores, coffe lake),
32 GB RAM,

Used the terminal top command, for Firefox also included the "Web content" process that is spawnned by Firefox.

[M@GOid]

KDE Plasma on X11 that comes with Ubuntu 20.10,
Mesa 20.3.x,
Radeon RX 570,
Core i5 (6 cores, coffe lake),
32 GB RAM,

Used the terminal top command, for Firefox also included the "Web content" process that is spawnned by Firefox.

Similar setup of mine. But here's a thing: Top/HTop measures CPU utilization differently than any other system monitor in Linux, be it on KDE, Gnome, XFCE or LXDE. For example, If you look at KDE's KSysguard, you will get a much lower value.

[M@GOid]

Adding MOZ_X11_EGL=1 in the command string did not work for me on XFCE.

I looked at that, running XFCE (Xubuntu 20.04.1) from a flashdrive, and indeed it didn't work, for some reason. But it does on KDE and Gnome, so maybe there is something funny happening with XFCE's windows manager. Maybe someone else had run in this problem and found a solution.