• Johanno@feddit.de
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    6 months ago

    I don’t get the hate.

    I mean how many Firefox users can even use this? Requires new gpu including compatible monitor.

    And where is the usecase? Videos in browser? Those are usually chopped down anyway. Upscaling will not help there.

    So it’s a cool feature for the 10 people who can use it.

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      6 months ago

      I mean how many Firefox users can even use this? Requires new gpu including compatible monitor.

      Isn’t that exactly why the hate?

      Mozilla should focus on adding features everyone can use, not gimmicks from Nvidia that require you to buy their GPU and their approved monitors. Plus considering Nvidia’s history with Linux which is a popular OS for Firefox…

      AMD doesn’t require that shit for, say, FreeSync or FSR.

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        6 months ago

        Nvidia, wayland issues aside is still the superior card 9/10 times. This isn’t a gimmick to get people to buy Nvidia, most of us will buy it anyway. During my last purchase as I pondered over whether I should get an amd and move over to wayland or an Nvidia card that would allow me to locally generate images of whatever I wanted. It was a pretty easy decision, I’ll stick to X11 and Nvidia until the end. Stuff like this is just a bonus

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        6 months ago

        Obviously I was exaggerating. But maybe only 10 people have an rtx, use Firefox, and even want to use the feature.

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          Well Nvidia is the biggest Graphic card manufacturer by far so it’s quite likely that any individual Firefox user has an RTX card.

          I do too, but unfortunately it’s an old RTX card which doesn’t support this feature (if I recall correctly anyways)

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      6 months ago

      Well, you’ve pointed out one of the issues. Was it really worth dedicating an engineer’s limited time to?