Canonical engineers are trying to solve the performance problem of Firefox snap

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since Canonical Turn to default use Firefox Of Snap After version ,Firefox The poor startup performance of web browsers has always been Ubuntu Linux Problems frequently complained by users on .Canonical Our engineers are now continuing their efforts to solve Firefox Snap Poor performance and other embarrassing problems .

stay Ubuntu Blog ,Canonical Of Oliver Smith Published a new article , Introduced their efforts to improve Firefox Snap Performance and Mozilla The latest efforts to solve other outstanding problems of the sandbox version of the web browser .

In terms of performance , They have been updated , To ensure that based on GPU Rendering of works in more situations , Instead of going back to software rendering .Ubuntu Developers are still working hard to solve these rendering problems , Including images Raspberry Pi Upper Ubuntu The version did not let go .

as for Firefox Slow start performance of the browser , One of the big factors is that in Firefox The first time the browser starts, a large number of language packs are copied . They are in contact with Mozilla Cooperation is similar to Windows Upper Firefox Browser changes , That is, only one locale is loaded each time according to the locale of the system , But that hasn't been settled yet .

Ubuntu Developers are continuing to explore other performance issues , For example, with other Linux Compared to the distribution ,Ubuntu Upper futex() The system call time is much higher .

Besides ,Firefox Snap Still trying to solve network mount access 、 Local message support and other projects .

Please have a look at Ubuntu Blog post , Understand that they are Snap The limit Firefox More details about the latest efforts made by the browser ：

https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-are-we-improving-firefox-snap-performance-part-2

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