Youtube slow on Linux mint

[ZestyMister]

I installed "ubuntu-restricted-extras" which installed some 'absolutely proprietary' media codecs that helped run youtube videos properly. Previously, my UI felt jittery and slow when playing youtube videos, but now its very smooth. Props to linux mint team by not installing them by default and keeping the os libre

Edit: I tried playing youtube on firefox but the issue remains the same, chromium browsers work just fine.

[tenplus1]

Firefox has it's own codecs build-in from what I know, installing propriatary drivers won't affect this unless it the binary driver for nvidia's gfx cards.

What are your system specs ?

[ZestyMister]

Firefox has it's own codecs build-in from what I know, installing propriatary drivers won't affect this unless it the binary driver for nvidia's gfx cards.

What are your system specs ?

I have a intel i5 9th gen cpu, radeon 520 gpu, 8gig ram. Pretty modern laptop in my opinion.

[Midnight True]

Edit: I tried playing youtube on firefox but the issue remains the same, chromium browsers work just fine.

i recommend installing firefox via flatpak instead because org.freedesktop provides the necessary dependencies to make firefox run better such as follows

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TAP-plugins                       org.freedesktop.LinuxAudio.Plugins.TAP 1.0.1        22.08       system
SWH                               org.freedesktop.LinuxAudio.Plugins.swh 0.4.17       22.08       system
Freedesktop Platform              org.freedesktop.Platform               22.08.11     22.08       system
Mesa                              org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default    21.3.9       21.08       system
Mesa                              org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default    23.0.2       22.08       system
Mesa (Extra)                      org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default    23.0.2       22.08-extra system
Intel                             org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel                21.08       system
Intel                             org.freedesktop.Platform.VAAPI.Intel                22.08       system
ffmpeg-full                       org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg-full                22.08       system
openh264                          org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264      2.1.0        2.0         system
openh264                          org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264      2.1.0        2.2.0       system

If your interested in installing firefox as flatpak please try this in the terminal:

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flatpak install flathub org.mozilla.firefox

By the way, i found Betterfox user.js https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox and on top of that adding Fastfox https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox/ ... Fastfox.js made FF a lot faster, though losing some privacy but this can be mitigated by NoScript and CanvasBlocker Ad-on.

If you are interested in applying the youtube tweaks please add and test the following to your user.js

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// CPU and GPU utilization
user_pref("dom.media.webcodecs.enabled", true);
user_pref("media.hardware-video-decoding.force-enabled", false); // enforce | orig = true
user_pref("gfx.webrender.enabled", true); 
user_pref("gfx.webrender.software", false); // Webrender uses the CPU and not the GPU | orig = true
user_pref("gfx.webrender.software.opengl", false); // [LINUX] | orig = true
user_pref("gfx.webrender.compositor.force-enabled", false); // enforce | orig = true
user_pref("dom.webgpu.enabled", true); // orig = false 
user_pref("dom.webgpu.indirect-dispatch.enabled", true); // orig = false
user_pref("gfx.webrender.enable-gpu-markers", true); // orig = false
user_pref("layers.gpu-process.allow-software", true); // orig = false
user_pref("layers.gpu-process.force-enabled", false); // enforce | orig = true
user_pref("media.gpu-process-decoder", true);

// to utilize ffmpeg runtimes via flatpak
user_pref("media.ffmpeg.enabled", true); 
user_pref("media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled", true);
user_pref("media.rdd-ffmpeg.enabled", true);
user_pref("media.utility-ffmpeg.enabled", true);

// using h264 codec exclusively, YT videos will play avc1
user_pref("media.gmp.decoder.enabled", true);
user_pref("media.gmp-provider.enabled", true);
user_pref("media.gmp-gmpopenh264.enabled", true);
user_pref("media.gmp.trial-create.enabled", true);
user_pref("media.navigator.mediadatadecoder_h264_enabled", true);

// disable vp9 codes
user_pref("media.encoder.webm.enabled", false); // orig = true
user_pref("media.mediasource.webm.enabled", false);
user_pref("media.mediasource.webm.audio.enabled", false);
user_pref("media.webm.enabled", false);

[Laurence Bosch]

It's not a temporary issue. I faced it sometimes but a few mins later it's okay.