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Want a fluid Firefox experience? Do this.
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07-29-2020, 03:34 PM
(07-28-2020, 02:41 AM)patrickjquinn Wrote: Hi all, i've recently, thanks to a guide posted on OMGUbuntu, changed my Firefox renderer over to the new Rust based, GPU bound one and it has literally been night and day in terms of performance. I'd highly recommend you do the same. 

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/07/fire...nder-linux

I tried that - hard to quantify the speed change. But seems to increase the Firefox-esr crashes significantly - in my case just scrolling down a long page seems pretty certain to crash. So have reverted.
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RE: Want a fluid Firefox experience? Do this. - by dukla2000 - 07-29-2020, 03:34 PM

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