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Firefox runs slower on Arch than on Windows? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I recently got a new Dell Inspiron 660s and it had Windows on it, I played around with Windows and eventually got around to putting Arch on it.

Now I've installed Arch on multiple systems but I'm no expert at Arch, I mainly like it because it's bleeding edge.

I opened Firefox on it and started to pull up Tetr.io and Friday Night Funkin - browser games, and it was noticably slower on Arch than it was on Windows.

According to Fastfetch, I have a "Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series" (???) and a "Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller" (my iGPU i think)

What can I do to fix this? Please tell me if I need to provide more info.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#Hardware_video_acceleration

Firefox is a bit annoying on wayland, you often have to force enable hw accel. If you cant figure it out send me a DM, ill be glad to help you through signal/matrix/discord

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Sent ya a dm :)

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Firefox disables some 3d acceleration stuff on Linux, where it's enabled by default on Windows.

So look through your ~~about:config~~ about:support for any acceleration stuff that's disabled. You might be able to enable them.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

I would rather suggest checking "about: support", not "about: config".