Thank you for your email I solved the issue by downloading Brave Web Browser and purged and removed Firefox. Brave Web Browser is worth a try. Best regards [image: Mailtrack] <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=signaturevirality5&;> Sender notified by Mailtrack <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=signaturevirality5&;> 08/02/21, 05:00:12 PM
On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 11:32 AM Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 2021 10:21:45 -0500, Karel P Coors wrote: > >Good day all, I have been a user of Firefox for years but Firefox > >90.0.2 turns me off. It's slow and freezes intermittently. > > Hi, > > you are probably using an Intel GPU. > > Latest Ubuntu flavours default to the "modesetting" driver. Maybe the > "intel" driver is dropped completely, I don't know. > > The reason for this is, that the "intel" driver is unsupported and not > working on kernel > 5.something. Some kernels > 5.something are still > ok, but at some version you can't use it anymore with the "intel" > driver. > > On Arch Linux I stay with 4.19 realtime patched LTS kernels and the > "intel" driver, because on my Intel GPU based machine the "modsetting" > driver is a PITA, with at least some software, at very least Firefox. > > When using Ubuntu live media, I stay with the "modesetting" driver. I > still can use Firefox, just the performance of Firefox is less good, > when using an Ubuntu live media. > > Sorry, I don't want to search for links, but at least you now have got > some keywords, you could use to do some research on your own, assuming > you are on an Intel machine. > > Regards, > Ralf > > -- > xubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users > -- Karel P Coors
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