<story><title>The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter in Firefox 70</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/08/the-baseline-interpreter-a-faster-js-interpreter-in-firefox-70/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usepgp</author><text>Hey, I&amp;#x27;m on the chromium videostack team, would you mind filing a bug report for what you see happening with youtube? &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;chromium&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;entry&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;chromium&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;entry&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>chao-</author><text>I have the opposite experience with YouTube.&lt;p&gt;With an AMD GPU on Linux, Chrome churns, drops frames, and stutters horribly on even 1080p videos at 30fps. Firefox, meanwhile, handles 1440p60 video with no problem. Even two such videos simultaneously, on separate monitors.&lt;p&gt;Chrome became inexplicably better for parts of early 2019 (I did not note which versions), but starting 2 or 3 months ago Chrome returned to being unusable for YouTube beyond 720p videos.&lt;p&gt;Before anyone asks, this is on an AMD RX 580 with Mesa 18.0.</text></item><item><author>the_duke</author><text>The Mozilla tech blogs are always a good read.&lt;p&gt;Informative and easy to digest. I can only think of one other company blogging with similar consistency&amp;#x2F;quality: Cloudflare.&lt;p&gt;Firefox performance has seen tremendous gains since their Project Quantum efforts.&lt;p&gt;It mostly feels on par with Chrome for me pretty much everywhere.&lt;p&gt;There is one glaring omission though: a single company where I have problems with FF on multiple apps - Google.&lt;p&gt;Gmail was still dog-slow the last time I tried, Youtube can send my fan into a frenzy and Docs is also regularly problematic. (on Linux)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nwallin</author><text>Fixing this would be like eight steps forward: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;chromium&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;detail?id=137247&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;chromium&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;detail?id=137247&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The annoying part is that hardware acceleration works on chrome OS, so we know the support is buried in there somewhere.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter in Firefox 70</title><url>https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/08/the-baseline-interpreter-a-faster-js-interpreter-in-firefox-70/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>usepgp</author><text>Hey, I&amp;#x27;m on the chromium videostack team, would you mind filing a bug report for what you see happening with youtube? &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;chromium&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;entry&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugs.chromium.org&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;chromium&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;entry&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>chao-</author><text>I have the opposite experience with YouTube.&lt;p&gt;With an AMD GPU on Linux, Chrome churns, drops frames, and stutters horribly on even 1080p videos at 30fps. Firefox, meanwhile, handles 1440p60 video with no problem. Even two such videos simultaneously, on separate monitors.&lt;p&gt;Chrome became inexplicably better for parts of early 2019 (I did not note which versions), but starting 2 or 3 months ago Chrome returned to being unusable for YouTube beyond 720p videos.&lt;p&gt;Before anyone asks, this is on an AMD RX 580 with Mesa 18.0.</text></item><item><author>the_duke</author><text>The Mozilla tech blogs are always a good read.&lt;p&gt;Informative and easy to digest. I can only think of one other company blogging with similar consistency&amp;#x2F;quality: Cloudflare.&lt;p&gt;Firefox performance has seen tremendous gains since their Project Quantum efforts.&lt;p&gt;It mostly feels on par with Chrome for me pretty much everywhere.&lt;p&gt;There is one glaring omission though: a single company where I have problems with FF on multiple apps - Google.&lt;p&gt;Gmail was still dog-slow the last time I tried, Youtube can send my fan into a frenzy and Docs is also regularly problematic. (on Linux)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chao-</author><text>I will take a look this weekend and if I can properly explain and document the issue in detail, I will definitely give you everything I can.&lt;p&gt;I should add that for an identical Linux distro-and-version, and identical browser versions, my laptop (I forget the SKU, but Intel Broadwell U-series GPU) is about equal in performance between Chrome and Firefox. That is to say, 1440p60 runs smooth on each, so they&amp;#x27;re good enough that there&amp;#x27;s no issue from which to discern a difference (which is damned impressive for a 4-year old mobile chip, imo).</text></comment>