The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank

Re:The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank by anon1253 on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @06:58PM (#15445998)

Just tried it with the Nightly by setting gfx.webrender.enabled to true in about:config. Wow, that thing flies. It's seriously amazing. And so far no bugs or visual inconsistencies I could detect. Firefox is really making great progress on this front!

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Re:The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank by 482794793792894 on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @11:55PM (#15455556)

There's more steps necessary to enable WebRender in full capacity.

I presume, though, that things are buggier then and the potentially introduced performance drops might actually make it feel slower for now. I don't know, though, I haven't tested it with just gfx.webrender.enabled.

You can find the current full list of steps to enable WebRender here: https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/webrender-newsle...

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Re:The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank by mycoborea on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @06:43AM (#15448655)

Yeah I'm pretty stunned at the speed improvements. I was getting a little worried there after Australis.

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Re:The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank by Antrikshy on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @12:24PM (#15450941)

I really want to use Firefox full time, but I miss Safari's multi-touch gesture integration.

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Re:The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank by DontGiveTwoFlux on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @12:44PM (#15451107)

You can try out Better Touch Tool to add a ton of custom gestures to whatever mapping you want.

For example, I use a four finger swipe down to hit CMD-W, which closes the window in focus for most apps.

https://www.boastr.net/

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