[xubuntu-users] Ubuntu 20.04 and Firefox 90.0.2

[Karel P Coors]

Thank you for your email
I solved the issue by downloading Brave Web Browser and purged and removed
Firefox.
Brave Web Browser is worth a try.
Best regards
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08/02/21,
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On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 11:32 AM Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Jul 2021 10:21:45 -0500, Karel P Coors wrote:
> >Good day all, I have been a user of Firefox for years but Firefox
> >90.0.2 turns me off. It's slow and freezes intermittently.
>
> Hi,
>
> you are probably using an Intel GPU.
>
> Latest Ubuntu flavours default to the "modesetting" driver. Maybe the
> "intel" driver is dropped completely, I don't know.
>
> The reason for this is, that the "intel" driver is unsupported and not
> working on kernel > 5.something. Some kernels > 5.something are still
> ok, but at some version you can't use it anymore with the "intel"
> driver.
>
> On Arch Linux I stay with 4.19 realtime patched LTS kernels and the
> "intel" driver, because on my Intel GPU based machine the "modsetting"
> driver is a PITA, with at least some software, at very least Firefox.
>
> When using Ubuntu live media, I stay with the "modesetting" driver. I
> still can use Firefox, just the performance of Firefox is less good,
> when using an Ubuntu live media.
>
> Sorry, I don't want to search for links, but at least you now have got
> some keywords, you could use to do some research on your own, assuming
> you are on an Intel machine.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
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