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Re:Google’s Chrome Becomes Web ‘Gatekeeper’ and Rivals Complain by masswerk on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @09:35AM (#20039953)
Interesting. So it may be related to hardware acceleration (GPU)? Or even processor type (think side channel attack mitigations.)
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Re:Google’s Chrome Becomes Web ‘Gatekeeper’ and Rivals Complain by mistercow on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @09:59AM (#20040237)
FWIW, I tried both with and without hardware acceleration on my 2018 MBP, and it worked fine both ways.
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Re:Google’s Chrome Becomes Web ‘Gatekeeper’ and Rivals Complain by masswerk on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @10:28AM (#20040573)
It's definitely bound to hardware acceleration: I just tried on an old MacPro (2008) and it stutters with hardware acceleration enabled, but runs smoothly without. Apparently, there are some overoptimistic assumptions about the GPU hardware available.
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