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?
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Yes, setting these 2 to True fixed the problem. I am curious if there was a security reason for this, or if it was just oversight.
Props to Brendan! Firefox and Brave are have put their foot down. Now they need our support. I'm hoping that nobody here is using Chrome (or anything else Google for that matter). We the users are what gave Google their power. We wanted free shit and look where that landed us. Time to turn things around.
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
Yes, the Pixel is a very good piece of hardware once you remove the crap software. If not the Pixel, there are plenty of other phone manufacturers around the world. Purism is another interesting option. Android is an open source project and Google cannot shut it down. There will always be ways. The majority are actually pretty smart and capable, just afraid of change. They wake up at some point though.
The asleep will continue to feed those big corps with their blood. The rest of us will move to other solutions. That is life.
Public chats are, well public. If you are in a public chat then everyone can see what you say. Encryption or any other attempt to make it private are silly here. If you are in a private, encrypted group, then only those people can see what you say (unless someone leaks). If you are in a e2ee personal chat with one other person, then only the 2 of you know what is being said. If you send a regular email that is the same as a postcard and anyone can look at what it says. You choose where and how you want to speak and adjust accordingly.
I think they are pretty good, and return some stuff that is censored out of Google and Bing. And if I don't find what I'm looking for, its very easy to use Bing which is pretty similar to Google. Microsoft is no better than Google, but we can let them serve us when it suits us, rather than the other way around.
iPhone is far from the only alternative out there. There are plenty of de-Googled solutions for Android like LineageOs. If you are more technically inclined, Graphene is superior to iphone in security also. These solutions can make use of the playstore or proxy it through Aurora depending on your personal preferences.
Its the other way around. Startpage uses Bing.
Now I went and checked Firefox and those same 2 settings are also set to False by default, BUT Firefox does not have the same cpu overuse problem when playing video that librewolf had before I changed these 2 settings. I am trying to figure out what's going on so I can make a helpful recommendation.