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Written by Showroom7561@lemmy.ca on 2024-05-22 at 21:35

Some websites are nearly impossible to use in FF due to slow performance

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Written by BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world on 2024-05-22 at 23:03

I have zero issues with Google Earth, using Firefox on Linux.

Sounds like Firefox might not be using GPU acceleration on your system for some reason. Graphics intensive websites (particularly 3D) work better if they make use of hardware acceleration and generally run better with it enabled. You can check if hardware acceleration is working by going to “about:suppor” and checking the “composite” line. If it says Web Render (without software written there in brackets) it’s hardware accelerated. If it’s disabled you may need to dig into settings to turn it on. It can also be related to out of date graphics drivers in Windows (I see elsewhere you’re on wndows).

Another possibility is if you have extensions that are interfering with the the website. Adblocks and privacy extensions can mess with Google sites (which are heavily data scraping). One way to test this is to open the website on private mode (assuming you haven’t enabled all extensions in that mode) and see what happens. Or disable all your extensions on that one site and see what happens.

But the core point is, Firefox is perfectly able to run such sites without issue. So the problem is with your set up somewhere.

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Written by Showroom7561@lemmy.ca on 2024-05-23 at 00:39

You can check if hardware acceleration is working by going to “about:support” and checking the “composite” line. If it says Web Render (without software written there in brackets) it’s hardware accelerated. I

It does say “Compositing WebRender”.

I’m going to try a fresh profile to see if that happens. I do have the same issue on multiple PCs (all windows), so I must be doing something that’s creating this issue on all my installs.

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