Re:A day without JavaScript
by jerf on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @11:22AM
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It's probably WebGL-related. Some Firefox update seems to have fixed it for me recently but for quite a while I could only visit Google Maps in a brand new Firefox instance, because any attempt to use it in a well-aged process would crash firefox and emit graphics errors to dmesg. You may have a poorly-supported WebGL stack.
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Agreed, I just dusted off an old laptop with 14.04 ubuntu (or maybe it was 14.05) and tried to run a webgl app I'm making off of local host and the whole computer nearly locked up (after updating firefox too). Chrome ran it at 60fps easy with whatever version was installed on the computer three years ago.
Now that I've updated to 16.04 firefox runs better than it did but chrome still blows it away.