Video playback smooth with Firefox 78 ESR

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Firefox 78 ESR has dropped today in the PureOS Amber repo :partying_face:

Here are my stats watching today’s LTT video at 2k/1440p.

YouTube: Stats for Nerds
Viewport / Frames 1920x960 / 0 dropped of 2803
Current / Optimal Res 2560x1280@30 / 2560x1280@30
Volume / Normalized 100% / 100% (content loudness -2.0dB)
Codecs vp09.00.51.08.01.01.01.01.00 (271) / opus (251)

Also only hitting 23-27% CPU usage at 1440p/30. Lower at 1080p and 720p.

So on my dual core Librem15v4 I’ve got no dropped frames, no hitching, just smooth video web video with a newer codec but FOSS codec (vp9). This makes me extremely happy. Another happy win for Linux and FOSS.

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OMG tesing now on mini and Librem5

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this is the latest version after

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

ff-esr-upd

note that this update just landed and it was the only one available at the time on my machine …
there have been few updates happening over on PureOS 9 Amber (stable) which is probably a good sign

@Richard it’s much appreciated that you keep us updated here on the forum for important things like the main-browser (FF-PureBrowser).

if people forget to update their PureOS regularly they might miss important updates/upgrades. keep up the good work !

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I just discovered this. I run Firefox on Mint 20. I don’t know if sharing this here is appropriate butting in on a topic and if it’s not I apologize . I seem to be the last one to find out about stuff
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Yeah firefox sucks.

But this is cool!

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