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Welcome to the "90% of web browsers are Chrome, so let's just optimise for Chrome" issue with the internet. Probably doesn't help that Edge and about a kajillion different browsers are also just Chrome/Chromium.
Solution? Get the web to stop relying so much on Chrome and Google. It's just that easy!
I was afraid that might be the case. It certainly seems like that. I'm blown away by how much faster Edge is compared to FF. Google Earth seems to run at 60fps (max refresh rate of my monitor) in Edge and like 15fps in FF... if I'm lucky.
I just opened up Google Earth in Firefox to see what would happen. It's buttery smooth with basically zero lag on loading assets, and zero lag zooming and dragging around on my 240Hz display.
I have a 1gbps symmetric fiber connection and I'm running NixOS. my Firefox Nix Home Manager config is here:
Even on my more pedestrian hardware Google Earth works fine with Firefox.
OP, check if your FF has WebGL enabled.
Thanks for trying! Google Earth is running my max refresh rate in Edge, but it's painfully slow on FF. If it's working for you, then I know there's hope!
I'm on Windows, unfortunately, so that's one variable I can't change. I'll consider that config, though!
What?
I have run both Google Earth and Google Maps in Firefox on Windows since forever and it has allways been fine.
This is not a Firefox issue.
I run LibreWolf and Twitch won't even let me log in. Even when spoofing the user agent they have client side measures to prevent you from logging in unless you're using FF or Chrome.
If anyone has faced or solved this issue I'd love to know.
My issue was with kindle -- or read dot amazon -- in Librewolf. The partial solution i fpund was crearing a new profile with the same extensions intalled in the default profile, with the addition of Canvas, for enhance fingerprint protection. Then, in the Librewolf-specific settings disable their default fingerprint protection. For me is a partial solution because every time i want to read a kindle book from the browser, y need to launch the firefox profile wizard, then select the profile for read dot amazon, then login, and finally open the book.
When you put about:support into the Firefox URL bar, do you see evidence that your GPU is being used? I'm not sure which settings, exactly, would indicate that, but mine, under "GPU #1" has "Active: Yes."
Lots of GPU-related options are also disabled, but I still get a smooth Google Earth experience.
Yes, GPU is active and even confirmed through the Windows Task Manager. I've added more details to my OP.
Now why TF did I find this downvoted
Works great for me on Windows 10 with the latest version of FF... Seems to be some problem with your particular configuration.
I do use ublock origin and the full suite of built in FF privacy enhancements, and I generally have my user agent spoofed as Chrome, but I'd be surprised if the latter made a difference.
I use Firefox on Windows 10. I'm kind of a tab-o-holic and multiple times a day I have to shut down FF and restart it to keep YouTube from slowing down. Thought it was due to the number of tabs I have open, but I never had this problem when I was using Brave.
There’s a well known issue of YT slowing down on FF clients. It’s not a FF issue, it’s Google being Google
Ok, thanks for that. Still it didn't happen back when I was using Brave.