Re:The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank
by steveklabnik on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @02:12PM
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Firefox 57 doesn’t have WebRender on unless you explicitly turn it on; did you? It would be reasonale not to, as it’s still kinda buggy.
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Re:The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank
by sp332 on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @02:58PM
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I think it's still in Nightly which is 58 now. I'm running 57 beta on Win10 and my about:support page says "unavailable by runtime: Build doesn't include WebRender".
Re:The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank
by Brakenshire on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @05:11PM
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I think WebRender is still off by default in 58 Nightly.
Re:The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank
by sp332 on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @06:03PM
(#15445700)
Right, but "off by default" is different from "not included in this build".
Re:The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank
by lwansbrough on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @02:16PM
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Didn’t know that! I’ll be honest I was wondering what the hype was about because it didn’t seem that fast to me...
Re:The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank
by kibwen on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @02:34PM
(#15444195)
The new improvements to Firefox fall under a project called "Quantum". Firefox 57 is merely the first Firefox release to have any Quantum components enabled, in particular Quantum CSS (a.k.a. Servo's CSS engine, Stylo) and Quantum Flow (which is a general umbrella project for making Firefox UI more responsive). Here are the others: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum
Re:The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank
by steveklabnik on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @02:25PM
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57 does contain a number of faster things, just not specifically the work the article is talking about. Now that 57 is in beta, I’d imagine that the developer-focused blogs are talking about future things.