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Firefox isn't even the best browser on Linux.

On my aarch64 devices, Chromium in a Docker image loads faster, never dominates the CPU, renders video and websites faster, and has working DRM. Firefox is slower in every respect and can't render Netflix.



I don't think you can make a blanket statement like this. My experience has been almost the opposite, Chrome always uses significantly more CPU for me.

I think it really depends on hardware, drivers etc.


Really? Firefox works fine with netflix on my pop_os laptop.


GP is talking about aarch64 Linux laptops, and IIUC Pop_OS uses x86_64.


The key is `aarch64` ;)


Opposite experience. For starters, Chromium doesn't even support video hardware decoding on Wayland properly.


That's unfair. Not even Emacs master works under Wayland. It's nowhere near a replacement for X.


> It's nowhere near a replacement for X.

It is for me and many others. Emacs works great under XWayland but Chromium HW video acceleration doesn't.

Emacs is a community project whereas Chromium has billions poured into it. Even Wine's getting Wayland support now and that ran under XWayland fine.

I don't think it's that unfair. Firefox on Linux is just better. Leaves some to be desired, sure, but a lot less than Chromium.




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