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Has the battery life issue improved with Firefox at all in the last year or two? I had to choose between degoogled-chromium and Safari because videos drained my battery so fast on my Macbook.

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Yeah, video on Firefox is so much worse than any other browser it's insane. Safari still has weird issues with pitch shifting videos playing at over 1x (1, it's an issue with webkit, as it affects Orion as well,) which makes it unviable for me as well. So I'm stuck with... Brave, despite having issues with it too.

Sigh.

1: https://orionfeedback.org/d/149-poor-audio-quality-when-play...

On m2 MBA firefox battery life is fantastic

It's not m1 with safari fantastic. Safari's bland though, so compromises get made.

If only Apple hadn't pulled a Google on us and let people use uBlock Origin in Safari unimpeded...

Man, why is everyone so obsessed with uBO? It's fine, but not sufficient IMO - uMatrix is worlds better.

Some of us don’t like 80% of the web being broken by default.

They're both great, but it's kinda irrelevant if they're both broken.

What's better about uMatrix?

And no longer being maintained, so there’s that

Do you mean uBlock Origin is no longer being maintained?

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases shows many recent releases?

Parent comment is referring to uMatrix which is no longer maintained and last updated 20 July 2021.

Until I see ads when using uBO, I don't have a reason to change. And I don't see ads.

uMatrix can't do cosmetic filtering.

Is this with lots of tabs open, or just in general?

Have you tried H264 video? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/h264ify/

(I was reading https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1736878, which suggested VP9 is not yet there.)

Even if the battery life is not that good as with Safari, there's nothing like Multi-Account Containers extension on other browsers. Helps a lot with separating accounts with added conveniences. Can't really go back to any other browser after having used containers on Firefox!

Issue is still there. I tried using it again a few weeks ago and it had significantly higher power usage on my M1 MBP than Chromium browsers.

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