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Re:Improving Firefox stability on Linux by ncmncm on Thursday May 20, 2021 @10:42PM (#27229950)
Where do you find 4k youtube videos? The best I ever encounter are 1080p. Often enough the best I can find are 720p or even worse. Not that it usually matters.

I use mpv when I am serious, moving FF entirely out of the picture.

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Re:Improving Firefox stability on Linux by rowanG077 on Saturday May 22, 2021 @07:24PM (#27251145)
Here are a few channels that I watch ofen that always upload in 4k. This is not a niche for serious youtube channels:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsn6cjffsvyOZCZxvGoJxGg

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnyfMqiRRG1u-2MsSQLbXA

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSpFnDQr88xCZ80N-X7t0nQ

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw

Besides even at 1080p the difference in how much battery it saves is astounding. With acceleration your CPU is just idling while without it has to work quite hard.

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Re:Improving Firefox stability on Linux by Avamander on Friday May 21, 2021 @11:07AM (#27235003)
If they have a setup that can display and content that they want to watch in 4K without their laptop burning a mark on their lap, then that's a valid use case. An use case that doesn't work with Firefox at the moment because of Firefox. "You're holding it wrong" is an incredibly inane attitude.
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