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by kryten 4731 days ago
Appears to be another "the whole world uses Google Chrome" bits of advice.

I bet other browsers have different performance profiles if this even works...
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thezilch 4731 days ago
Only Chrome (or webkit-based) support [0], and like the other poster said, blur will be slow unless harnessing the GPU.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/filter#Brow...

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davidjohnstone 4731 days ago
I'd take you up on that bet — the blur filter is always going to be computationally expensive given that has to do Gaussian blur according to the spec. There are faster ways to blur, but they're not as "good".
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viraptor 4731 days ago
Latest released FF (from arch) didn't have any problems handling the page. It was quite smooth, but I didn't check the detailed profile.
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kalleboo 4731 days ago
But is it applying the (slow) CSS blur filter? The article claims the filter is currently only supported by WebKit. Of course it'll render fast if it's not actually rendering anything.
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viraptor 4731 days ago
It's definitely blurred. Not sure if it's from the filter, or just a specific way that FF does upscaling.
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thezilch 4731 days ago
FF does not support any of three filters nor many others.
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