Make it work better on Firefox

[emberian]

My firefox experience can be described as "Rough at best". I myself will be looking at why and if I can improve it.

[greggman]

Cool. It worked fine for me. It even worked in Firefox on Android for me though editing was not fun.

What kind of machine are you on?

[emberian]

Linux 64-bit.

The first thing I've found out is that moving to a different tab or removing FF from exposure (minimization, different workspace, whatever) stops all playback and animation and it does not resume. I also cannot get it to play longer than a second (and it is a second of broken audio) without the web console (Ctrl-Shift-K) or Firebug open. Firebug makes it terrible but workish, web console makes it Just Work. I see a few things like "uncaught exception: Namespace "tdl.webgl" already declared.", it must be some internal error because it isn't giving a source file or line. This is true for both FF10 and Nightly. It's butter smooth on Chromium 18.

In Windows, everything works great, for the most part. I'll do a debug trace, some quick profiling, and then see if anything obvious turns up. Really not sure what it could be at this point, though I have a few hunches.

[emberian]

Talked with a FF dev and there are known problems with Linux and the audio data api. S/he told me to play around with the amount of data written and see if that helps at all, and to file a bug. I'll be doing both of those things in the morning.