This is an amazing achievement for the WebRender team, but users should manage their expectations with regard to performance improvements.<p>The reality is that Firefox's current rendering engine is highly tuned, and switching to a new engine without major performance regressions is impressive. Keep in mind, there may be performance improvements coming down the line.
Shipping for Linux is waaay down the list:<p><a href="https://github.com/orgs/FirefoxGraphics/projects/1" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/orgs/FirefoxGraphics/projects/1</a><p>I assume due to driver issues?
So Windows 10 + Nvidia GPU is only 4%? Huh. I would have thought this demographic would be larger.<p>I guess most users are on laptops where integrated Intel GPUs are more common.
Tremendous effort on a very complicated piece of software. I wish Firefox would also catch up on less complicated but needed so greatly features which are present in other browsers, like filling out credit card info and autocomplete=email input fields autocompletion.
Here's hoping it is easy to switch off. Firefox has become extremely crashy, running under Qubes, where the GPU is forbidden, despite my turning off attempts at shader use everywhere I can find. E.g., even turning off "smooth scrolling" made a substantial difference. But it still crashes, even just loading a DDG search results page.<p>Advice welcome. (No, abandoning Qubes is not an option.)