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Welcome to the official community for LibreWolf.

LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM. If you have any question please visit our FAQ first: https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/

To learn more or to download the browser visit the website: https://librewolf.net/

If you want to contribute head over to our Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/librewolf

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submitted 1 year ago by opt9@feddit.ch to c/librewolf@lemmy.ml
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When I play a video from odysee.com on LibreWolf it uses 2-3x the cpu that Brave does to play the same video. It also turns on the fans in my laptop which signals overburden. My laptop has plenty of power so I"m wondering what the problem is. Have I missed a setting or is this just how LibreWolf works?

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[–] opt9@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Yes, I'm on Linux and LibreWolf compositing says: WebRender (Software), my Firefox however says WebRender without the "(Software)" and Brave says "Hardware accelerated." Firefox and Brave consume similar normal amounts of cpu. LibreWolf does not.

So if my Firefox has acceleration, then shouldn't LibreWolf also? Do I have to add it or enable it somewhere? Thanx

[–] carryonrtw@mastodon.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

HW accel should be automatic on targets that support it (x86, AMD, Apple). I run on a #RaspberryPi4 target which is #Arm64 and doesn't support it "yet". The fix has been checked into git so next release will fix it on Firefox and LibreWolf. In your case though, if Firefox is working then LibreWolf also should.

I'd ask @librewolf if they have any ideas why it wouldn't work. The Google turned up this: https://www.reddit.com/r/LibreWolf/comments/11isnra/how_to_enable_hardware_acceleration/

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The post you linked to recommends disabling hardware acceleration. This does not seem to be my issue. Also you told me to ask @librewolf but that leads back to this forum. Is there someone with that name or did you mean to make another post?

[–] carryonrtw@mastodon.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@opt9 I knew how to check if HW accel was enabled. Beyond that I'm just spitballing. 🙂 You could raise an issue on their gitlab.

https://gitlab.com/groups/librewolf-community/-/issues

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago

👍

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