Fedora’s repo build has had this turned on for literally years
Fedora’s repo lacks H264 support for AMD out of the box though.
Could be wrong, but it’s not about working but rather that it is now enabled by default.
Which may haven’t been the case, I suppose?
Who on linux is playing videos in the browser??
Anyone who uses YouTube et al. or any number of non-DRM (Widevine) streams?
I do. When I watch Odysee.
its already working for me, and was for a long time.
I thought it always was lol
This is like the 6th time they’ve claimed this. I was attacked before for saying this wasn’t working correctly.
Weird, it’s been working for me for a while. I just need to manually set “media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled” to true in about:config.
I could have sworn they did this already a while back.
I still can’t play my videos on Firefox without transcoding them, so I honestly hope they get it right this time.
What about Intel? I’ve been trying to get hardware acceleration on Firefox all day yesterday with no luck.
It’s been working fine since a couple years ago on Intel. It works on my Intel machines with both old and recent cpus
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#Hardware_video_acceleration
The article mentions AMD GPU so I am assuming they are talking about Intel arc GPU
VAAPI works on the integrated GPUs as well. There’s a table of supported codecs here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardware_video_acceleration#Comparison_tables
Unfortunately they never bothered to get things integrated into Mesa and they have 2 different packages.
I’d rather have software decode of h.264 on par with Chromium. As it is I can’t watch Twitch on my laptop in Firefox.
Firefox on android keeps turning it’s “Data Collection” options on. I’m no longer able to trust it. The company is starting to show signs of rot.
Have you tried Fennec?
Really? Turned them off a long time ago, never seen it changing (checked now too just in case)
I guess he means whenever he reinstalls it. As IT, whenever I’m setting up something new on some server etc I have to go through those settings over an over. Not much different from the MS bullshit to try and reduce data collection.
Aren’t those browser settings and not user settings? I see your point and maybe those should be user settings, but saying that “Firefox on android keeps turning it’s Data Collection options on” is misleading
Same here, had Firefox installed since I got this phone in September and it’s still off (also just checked)
Use a fork of Firefox that doesn’t do that. For example, Ironfox
LibreWolf and FireFoxFocus.
Zen browser is pretty interesting too
