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Re:Firefox Private Browsing vs. Chrome Incognito: Which Is F... by tokenizerrr on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:20AM (#15740463)
Yeah, it's weird. Switched to Firefox Quantum as my main browser again, happened to use Plex and it was slightly laggy with huge cpu usage. Try it in chrome and it's smooth as always.
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Re:Firefox Private Browsing vs. Chrome Incognito: Which Is F... by tehbeard on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:24AM (#15740499)
I've seen comments that, at least on Linux it might not use GPU acceleration by default?
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Re:Firefox Private Browsing vs. Chrome Incognito: Which Is F... by scrollaway on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:35AM (#15740597)
If this is the case for you, hit up `about:config` and change `layers.acceleration.force-enabled` to true. This heavily reduced tearing for me.
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Re:Firefox Private Browsing vs. Chrome Incognito: Which Is F... by floatboth on Monday November 20, 2017 @11:59AM (#15741325)
That is a must-enable setting for sure, but not video related. That's compositing.

Firefox still does not support VAAPI or VDPAU :(

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Re:Firefox Private Browsing vs. Chrome Incognito: Which Is F... by jhasse on Monday November 20, 2017 @01:07PM (#15741816)
It doesn't, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280523
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