Re: Firefox and graphic acceleration (Google Earth Web)

On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not sure about Google earth, but on Raspberry Pi 4 running Debian, I
> find that Firefox is notably slower compared to Vivaldi (which is based
> on Chromium engine). Also Firefox ends up crashing much more often with
> complex websites that rely heavily on JavaScript, e.g. draw.io.
>
> I think on this platform hardware acceleration is quite minimal for
> both browsers, so apples to apples, Chromium based browsers seem to
> offer better performance.
>

Thanks for the response.

I'm not sure about the cause of this, honestly. I think there is some
misconfiguration somewhere in firefox.
I searched for this and some people also experience this in different Linux
distributions like Ubutu: firefox lags to the point where Google Earth Web
is unusable but Chrome works fine.
Then some other people report that firefox and Chrome both work equally
well in the same Ubuntu version.