From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech>
Cc: 51027-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51027: Icecat: gfx.webrender.all unset by default - gpu performance issues
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:46:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfn68mw0.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87czo6kzhf.fsf@gmail.com> (Maxim Cournoyer's message of "Fri, 15 Oct 2021 12:46:20 -0400")
Hi,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz@elenq.tech> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I recently found my GPU struggling to render simple websites on icecat while
>>> ungoogled-chromium is able to do it correctly.
>>>
>>> The most recent one was element, Matrix's web client.
>>> I opened an issue there[^1] and they told me to set the `gfx.webrender.all` to
>>> `true`.
>>>
>>> I did it and everything worked like a charm, and the rendering effort for any
>>> other website went down significantly.
>>>
>>> Why do we ship icecat with this variable unset? Can we set it so more people
>>> benefit from the new rendering engine?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ekaitz
>>>
>>> [^1]: https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/19217
>>
>> Seems this feature is rather new, and has been (is being?) deployed to
>> selected systems by Mozilla. Given that Icecat is based on the ESR (the
>> slower paced Firefox releases), it'll probably take a little while to
>> land.
>>
>> You should dig more to get a definitive answer though! Perhaps the
>> Mozilla folks would know best.
>
> Turning such feature on in my version of icecat didn't seem to break
> something (or improve much) until I restarted it, at which point the
> output was totally garbled. That's using it with an nvidia 8800 GTS
> card and the nouveau driver.
>
> So, unless the upstream Firefox ESR GNU Icecat is based on has this bit
> turned on, I'd vote to close this issue.
I'm closing the issue, as I don't think it's Guix responsibility to
decide whether Icecat should deviate from the upstream Firefox (ESR)
version it is based on.
Thanks,
Maxim
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-05 9:15 bug#51027: Icecat: gfx.webrender.all unset by default - gpu performance issues Ekaitz Zarraga
2021-10-15 3:52 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-10-15 16:46 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-07-12 13:46 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
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