Is this issue related to my ancient 15-year-old graphics card, my browser, or something else?

  • Limcon@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    12 days ago

    One thing, always use hardware acceleration.

    Does it get better if you set in about:config:

    • dom.ipc.processCount and dom.ipc.processCount.webIsolated to your number of threads on your cpu
    • gfx.webrender.all to true
    • fission.autostart to true

    I think it would, in my suspicion, make a better use of your cpu (the threadpool would be more efficient in the processcount), using the new renderer (webrender) and possibly make it a little more secure with one thread per website (or something, i don’t remember exactly) using fission.

    Edit: An explanation on webrender

      • Limcon@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        12 days ago

        Can you test a newer version of firefox? I have 128 ESR on my work laptop and it’s slow there too, it might be this.

        • KickassWomen@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          12 days ago

          This is apparently the latest version of Firefox ESR that’s available in Debian’s repository.

          I used these commands to update Debian:

          sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove

          Here’s the output:

          Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  • infeeeee@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    12 days ago

    Just my troubleshooting tips:

    Can you run a benchmark, maybe this one, so we can see it it’s really a general thing not just something on that website? Also we can compare it to other computers, or you can see if changing a setting helps at all.

    Can you see something strange in about:processes? Shift+Esc is its keyboard shortcut.

    Can you try it in other browsers? Something Chrome like (Chromium, Brave, Vivaldi). Does this happen there as well?

    • KickassWomen@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      Can you run a benchmark, maybe this one

      Can you see something strange in about:processes?

      I can’t find anything suspicious but here’s a snippet of it:

      Can you try it in other browsers?

      I used Ungoogled Chromium and it opens the pop-ups smoothly (so Firefox is causing the problem):

      Clip

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    10 days ago

    Why are you using the ESR version?

    I would either add the Mozilla repo or install the Flatpak

    Edit: I saw your other comments

    What desktop are you on?

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
    1·
    12 days ago

    What’s the rest of the hardware? Tried disabling hardware acceleration and see if it makes a difference?

    • KickassWomen@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      I disabled recommended performance settings and hardware acceleration in Firefox and I’m still experiencing this issue: