[pharmakom]

In this vein, I can’t even register for GitHub on Firefox due to laggy animations. Works fine in Chrome. Did they even test it?

[WarOnPrivacy]

> I can’t even register for GitHub on Firefox due to laggy animations.

You aren't kidding. On Firefox 120 it ramps up a Xeon core to >50% and floors my GPU 3D at 100%.

I opened on Opera and CPU is negligible, GPU is steady at 15% (which still seems high for a throwaway web background).

for those playing along at home: https://github.com/signup?source=login

[AntronX]

My CPU was at 27% (i3-4130) and 27 watts power use vs. 11w at idle. Added uBlock filter: github.com##div.signup-stars and CPU was back to 1%. Background stars animation is the culprit.

[shadowgovt]

On a browser with like 5% uptake? I'd be willing to wager they didn't test it on Firefox. They probably didn't test it on Brave either.

[pacifika]

I’m sure everyone is a 5% edge case somewhere

[solardev]

Poor Firefox users are 5% edge cases everywhere :(

[ToValueFunfetti]

I can't support this with data, but I expect the percent is a bit higher among potential GitHub users

[shadowgovt]

I'm not sure. My total lack of data suggests that they are GitLab users.

[pharmakom]

For GitHub, Firefox usage will be way higher.

And besides “Microsoft <3 Open Source” right?

… Right?

[andygeorge]

huh? works just fine for me in Firefox

[shadowgovt]

I'd be willing to wager the X Factor is graphics card configuration and a card optimized for high performance 3D rendering (including having the drivers installed properly to leverage those features).

There's a bit of a correlation between Firefox users and users who are mostly content that their hardware supports explicitly a 2D desktop GUI and is not optimized for anything fancier. But nowadays, the browser itself is a 3D application because the 3D compositing pipeline is also the high performance 2D compositing pipeline.

[andygeorge]

Dunno, I use FF on all my PCs with a variety of configurations and do not experience the GitHub slowdown referenced earlier.