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Kinda cool that Chrome added pointer lock, but the responsiveness of moving the cursor around the screen is pretty shit. Maybe it's mac mouse acceleration's fault?

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FPS games kinda suck on Mac for this reason. This little control panel widget helps a little bit:

http://smoothmouse.com/

Not trying to convert you to FF, but it works great on FF 35 for me

I actually just came here to say how shitty was cursor lock on Firefox. Firefox just keeps getting worse and worse.

What problem are you having exactly? Works fine here.

Cursor 'snaps out' of the window if I move a lot to the left/right.

And Firefox IS going to shit, whether the HN community likes it or not.

It doesn't do that for me, I played the game pretty spasticly...

I don't know in what way you mean Firefox is going to shit, but here's the great part about it: you can file bug reports, and submit code so it ISN'T shit.

At least you could justify Chrome's bad design decisions with "that's what's good for Google". And that's what makes it even worse for Firefox. US$311 -->MILLION<-- a year ("not-for-profit"), lot of developers working for free on it and they can't come up with a decent web browser, shame on them, and shame on the guys that believe their bs.

Same for me, but on Windows. Otherwise it's a pretty neat tech demo but is unfortunately rendered unplayable by this bug.

I noticed this as well, but I use a trackball mouse and I can flick the ball and get good responsiveness.

No problems on Arch, just the fps was underwhelming on a 290 on Gallium / Firefox.

What's underwhelming? I was getting 38 fps on chromium/Arch on a ThinkPad X230. I guess it's slow if you're used to 60 fps, but I was quite impressed.

Average fps was 47, but this game seems to be composed of very few polygons. I mean less than Quake 1 here. It should scream at 300+ fps at least on a video card like that.

That, and it seems its either the browser or the game fps capped at 60. Which makes the experience on a 144hz monitor less appealing.

yeah but that's conflating simple with optimized, which i doubt this is. A lot can probably be done to make this run much faster. This is not a AAA title.

There's a mouse sensitivity option in the menu.

accel != sens

The OP commented on responsiveness, which is certainly a sensitivity issue.

Works fine on my 2013 MacAir

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