Firefox 96 Yields Less Load On The Main Thread, WebP Encoder For Canvas

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Firefox 96 Yields Less Load On The Main Thread, WebP Encoder For Canvas

Firefox 96.0 is officially shipping today as the first update of 2022 for this open-source web browser...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Firefox-96-Released

[Jaxad0127]

Typo: "huge/whiteness/blackness" should say "hue".

Will the "video quality degradation fixes" stop Youtube from randomly downgrading videos and running "1080p auto" that is really 480 or worse?

[Cotyso]

Firefox 96 also simplifies the process of enabling hardware decoding by removing the need to disable the rdd sandbox

[cl333r]

Speaking of WebP - does anyone know how to enable WebP support in Ubuntu 21.10 (kubuntu)? Firefox and such support it because they come with their own built-in WebP libraries. For example - Qt5 doesn't support WebP, but afaik used to.

[darkbasic]

Firefox 96 also simplifies the process of enabling hardware decoding by removing the need to disable the rdd sandbox

Firefox 96 still needs both media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled and media.rdd-ffmpeg.enabled, while Firefox 97 will only need media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fir...o_acceleration

[bug77]

Speaking of WebP - does anyone know how to enable WebP support in Ubuntu 21.10 (kubuntu)? Firefox and such support it because they come with their own built-in WebP libraries. For example - Qt5 doesn't support WebP, but afaik used to.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtimageformats-attribution-libwebp.html

[Vistaus]

Typo: "huge/whiteness/blackness" should say "hue".

Will the "video quality degradation fixes" stop Youtube from randomly downgrading videos and running "1080p auto" that is really 480 or worse?

I don't have that issue in Firefox, and I've been using the beta channel for a few months now straight from the Mozilla site. I did have that issue in Falkon, but only after clearing the HTML5 cache.