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Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by AsyncAwait on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @05:37AM (#18977165)
To be fair that seems anecdotal. I've been on Firefox since v57 on Arch Linux with no major issues.
Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by nvarsj on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:33AM (#18977919)
Yeah, it's totally anecdotal and just my experience. I would really like to use Firefox. I may try it again. Quantum made such a big improvement on Linux which is why I gave it a shot and stuck with it so long. But it still had issues for me.
Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by AsyncAwait on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @11:03AM (#18979371)
Out of curiosity, what distro, display server and GPU drivers do you use?
Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by nvarsj on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @02:16PM (#18981606)
Arch/X/Intel.
Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by AsyncAwait on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:41PM (#18982659)
Hmm...that is super strange then. Intel has definitely been the most solid for me when it comes to GPU stability, including in Firefox. I primarily use a workstation with an AMD GPU, but have a secondary laptop with Intel and had no issues with Firefox there whatsoever. I am also on Arch. The only time I ever experienced frequent crashes was when I was testing the Wayland build early on, (they still happen sometimes on Wayland, which is still experimental in Firefox, but on X things have been solid for me).

I am honestly perplexed what the issue could be then, I was sure you were using an NVidia with the proprietary drivers or something like that, as such setups have caused me trouble in the past.

The only thing is I wouldn't recommend turning on WebRender for everything yet, but it's not on by default so I doubt you had it on.