Re: Firefox and graphic acceleration (Google Earth Web)

From: Tomek CEDRO <tomek_at_cedro.info>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:43:48 UTC
On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM Fernando Apesteguía
<fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
> I was recently trying out Google Earth Web (https://earth.google.com/web/) and found out it is almost unusable as it is very slow.
> I don't have any other noticeable problems in Firefox: other web pages render fine and fast, I can reproduce HD videos in Youtube without any issues, etc.
> I use:
> nvidia-driver-470-470.256.02.1402000_1
> firefox-144.0_2,2
> and I load nvidia-modeset from /etc/rc.conf
> I tried to install Chromium and it works very well with Google Earth out of the box, so I'm wondering if I'm missing something in my Firefox configuration (it's basically the default configuration).
> Any ideas?

Hmm the same here 14.3-RELEASE AMD64 RTX5070 with latest nvidia devel
drivers.. in Firefox barely usable and slows down the whole system
while in Ungoogled-Chromium works fine :-)

% pkg info -x nvidia
linux-nvidia-libs-devel-580.105.08
nvidia-driver-devel-580.105.08
nvidia-drm-61-kmod-devel-580.105.08.1403000
nvidia-drm-kmod-devel-580.105.08
nvidia-kmod-devel-580.105.08.1403000
nvidia-settings-580.105.08
nvidia-xconfig-580.105.08

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