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Power consumption on video playback of Firefox vs. Chrome

noplan — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 17:44:03 GMT

Is it planned to adress the high power consumption of Firefox compared to chrome-based browsers in the near future?

I am a long-time Firefox user but noticed recently, that my GPU (Radeon RX 6700 XT) consumes on video-playback in the browser about 30W, e.g. on Youtube (1080p@60 fps), while in any chrome-based browser, the power consumption is about 7W (read with GPU-Z).

This is unfortunately a big gap and brings more issues than just the higher power consumption, e.g. the zero-fan mode of the graphics card is not working under all conditions due to the elevated power consumption.

Re: Power consumption on video playback of Firefox vs. Chrome

jarvis — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:44:40 GMT

yes, same happen to me.

Re: Power consumption on video playback of Firefox vs. Chrome

Soremir — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 18:14:22 GMT

Dont know what OS you use but on windows 11 i had the same problem. Solution was to disable animation effects from windows accessibility settings and guess what, it drastically lowered the gpu usage by a lot!!!

Re: Power consumption on video playback of Firefox vs. Chrome

Elle — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 09:26:30 GMT

There is a big problem and optimization is really needed. The Firefox is probably needed to completely switch to FFmpeg and not use self wrote code.