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firefox ________________________________________________________________________________ Mozilla Firefox or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages. [0] Upstream: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox [000] Index ________________________________________________________________________________ * Installation ........................................................... [001] * Runtime Dependencies ................................................. [002] * Privacy Package ...................................................... [003] * Setup .................................................................. [004] * Enable VAAPI Acceleration ............................................ [005] * Usage .................................................................. [006] * References ............................................................. [007] [001] Installation ________________________________________________________________________________ +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | $ kiss b firefox | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --[002] Runtime Dependencies --------------------------------------------------- Firefox needs a few additional things to be fully functional. One is an icon theme and the other is a font. If you have already installed the fonts and icon theme of your choosing, this step can be skipped. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | $ kiss b [hicolor-icon-theme|adwaita-icon-theme] | | $ kiss b ttf-croscore | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ --[003] Privacy Package -------------------------------------------------------- Provided is also an optional privacy package which makes Firefox perform zero unsolicited network requests. More information can be found in the documentation (@/firefox-privacy) Expect some website breakage when using this privacy package YMMV. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | $ kiss b firefox-privacy | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ [004] Setup ________________________________________________________________________________ As of Firefox 91. There is no need to set special environment variables to enable Wayland support (in a Wayland only environment like ours). The browser should start with no further configuration. --[005] Enable VAAPI Acceleration ---------------------------------------------- As of Firefox 102, only the following modification to about:config should be required, with no need to disable any sandbox features. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | about:config | | | | media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled=true | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ If using AMDGPU, the following kernel option must be enabled. [1] +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | .config | | | | CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE=y | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ You may also need to set the following environment variable. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | .profile | | | | export MOZ_WAYLAND_DRM_DEVICE=/dev/dri/renderD128 | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To verify that VAAPI is working, launch Firefox with the following argument and attempt to watch a video. Pay attention for errors in the output. +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | $ firefox --MOZ_LOG=PlatformDecoderModule:4 | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ [006] Usage ________________________________________________________________________________ Refer to the browser's help output and online documentation for further information. [007] References ________________________________________________________________________________ [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox