Package Details: firefox-vaapi 133.0-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/firefox-vaapi.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: firefox-vaapi
Description: Fast, Private & Safe Web Browser (with VA-API patches)
Upstream URL: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
Keywords: firefox libva va-api vaapi video
Licenses: MPL-2.0
Conflicts: firefox
Provides: firefox
Submitter: ewout
Maintainer: dcelasun
Last Packager: dcelasun
Votes: 11
Popularity: 0.037735
First Submitted: 2023-02-24 13:48 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-12-01 12:05 (UTC)

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ewout commented on 2024-01-09 19:38 (UTC) (edited on 2024-01-09 19:39 (UTC) by ewout)

@deemon Included the wayland proxy patches per your suggestion. Appreciate the feedback! Maybe create a ticket for the regular firefox package in the repos to include these patches as well?

Drommer commented on 2024-01-02 16:35 (UTC) (edited on 2024-01-02 16:36 (UTC) by Drommer)

deemon, you can download the prebuilt package from here (or take the patch and add it to the build): https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:drommer:archlinux/firefox-kde-stable.

P.S. Please let me know if it works as expected.

deemon commented on 2023-12-26 23:05 (UTC) (edited on 2023-12-31 02:53 (UTC) by deemon)

Since Firefox 121 now runs natively on Wayland, it crashes A LOT for me. Apparently I am not the only one and Fedora guys have included in their firefox build something called "wayland-proxy" to fix this crap ( https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Proxy-Firefox ; https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2023/12/22/wayland-proxy-load-balancer/ ). Can you somehow add this wayland-proxy to this firefox-vaapi build also please? Or it will probably/hopefully added to the mainline Firefox for everyone hopefully. This "mastransky" seems to be firefox dev, who packaged this proxy into fedora package (for more humal trials? -- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1743144#c100 )

Anyway, right now as we don't have it yet, testing it out as standalone proxy between wayland and firefox:

git clone https://github.com/stransky/wayland-proxy.git
cd wayland-proxy/src
chmod +x compile
./compile
./wayland-proxy /usr/lib/firefox/firefox

EDIT: SO FAR THIS HAS WORKED PERFECTLY FOR ME! Firefox has not crashed once for 4 days now. (whereas it did crash like 5-20 times a day previously in wayland mode)

remmy commented on 2023-12-10 20:31 (UTC) (edited on 2023-12-10 20:31 (UTC) by remmy)

@maxpayne3

I'm running a ThreadRipper with 96GBs of RAM and I will say that even with that, it was using 35GB of RAM and maxing out all 48 cores during compile. It went pretty quick, but compilation time could take quite awhile.

xzntest commented on 2023-12-10 06:25 (UTC)

@deemon the automated testing is for profile guided optimization. you should be able to edit the PKGBUILD to disable pgo

deemon commented on 2023-12-07 11:42 (UTC)

is it possible to turn off the automated testing BS in the middle of compilation that shoots up a browser and does all the wrong things in my computer?

maxpayne3 commented on 2023-12-07 08:16 (UTC)

@remmy my PC is not very fast and it could take too long to compile. How long does it take to you? I'd like to download a precompiled binary.

remmy commented on 2023-12-07 04:25 (UTC)

@maxpayne3 What seems to be the problem when compiling?

I ran into some issues initially before realizing I still had my base conda environment enabled. After that, things went smoothly.

maxpayne3 commented on 2023-11-05 11:33 (UTC)

Is there a repo where I can download this as a binary package? I can't compile it unfortunately.

ewout commented on 2023-11-02 13:09 (UTC)

@deemon Disabling driver blacklists can have that effect yes.

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