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A comment on Firefox 51.0.

Re:Firefox 51.0 by aorth on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @03:25PM (#13475132)
The WebGL demo "After the Flood" linked in their release summary post is really beautiful. I don't play games but this technology is very impressive. Try it for yourself if you're on an updated Firefox (51+):

https://playcanv.as/e/p/44MRmJRU/

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Re:Firefox 51.0 by bwhitty on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @05:20PM (#13476267)
Very cool demo. Worked fine on my 2015 rMBP even if Ultra settings ran at about 10 FPS.

The web really has come a long, long ways.

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Re:Firefox 51.0 by StavrosK on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @09:11PM (#13477821)
Hell, I got 8 FPS on Ultra on my 2013 Air (that's on Firefox 52.0, though). The Firefox 52b UI feels much snappier than the 51b UI, for some reason, which is fantastic, because my main annoyance with 51 was the sluggish UI. The whole browser would freeze while one tab was loading.
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Re:Firefox 51.0 by pjmlp on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @04:32PM (#13475722)
Sadly even though my GPU is OpenGL 3.3 capable, I only get sound on Chrome and FF, with FF eventually causing the NVidia driver to crash.
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Re:Firefox 51.0 by amluto on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @04:35PM (#13475763)
On my laptop, something is very wrong with touchpad controls and I seem to be mostly stuck looking straight down or straight up :(
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Re:Firefox 51.0 by binaryanomaly on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @04:49PM (#13475913)
Yep touchpad is totally messed up here, too. Worked fine on my desktop with mouse, though.
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Re:Firefox 51.0 by HugoDaniel on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @03:48AM (#13479821)
Black screen here on "MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011)" (with the mighty Intel HD3000)
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