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Poor performance in Firefox

Open adamjc opened this issue 4 years ago • 4 comments

Issue: Running the games through Firefox doesn't give a smooth framerate

Replicate: Open up any of the games in Firefox

adamjc avatar Dec 29 '21 15:12 adamjc

I haven't measured, but I use Firefox and haven't noticed issues.

tjpalmer avatar Dec 29 '21 16:12 tjpalmer

I'm using firefox as my daily driver. And on my PC I never had an issue. On the Pi however, I do. That is because firefox on the Pi doesn't have hardware acceleration. WASM-4 uses WebGL. If you don't have drivers or firefox can't work with them, the performance will be poor, yes.

christopher-kleine avatar Dec 30 '21 08:12 christopher-kleine

Even the template application (press x to blink) consumes a lot of computing power.

iacore avatar Dec 31 '21 15:12 iacore

~~The audio engine seems to suffer a bit as well in Firefox (compared to a Chromium browser).~~

~~The noise channel sounds a bit different, and if you do tones very rapidly (which is used for arpeggios) it messes up completely.~~

EDIT: No longer applies with the new APU 🎉

JerwuQu avatar Jan 14 '22 03:01 JerwuQu