iceweasel with general upgrade to ESR leaves poor video performance

i33te · 2017-09-28 19:54:56

Hi everyone, I recently ran a dist-upgrade in order to get the iceweasel i was on (38) up to date. I knew that i would take a performance hit but i didnt expect my videos to stutter when i put them full screen. I am running on a thinkpad t410 w 4gb ram. Still on kernel 3.16. Any ideas for the naive are well appreciated.

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stevep · 2017-09-28 20:59:16

Videos from what sites? Do you have Flash installed? Starting with Firefox 40, Youtube pushes HTML5 video to you by default instead of Flash, so that may account for the difference. You can install an extension to FF that forces Youtube to use Flash, but another extension that also plays embedded video with minimal CPU use on my system (because I have my mpv using va-api hardware acceleration) is "Watch with MPV". This may need a newer youtube-dl to go with mpv than you have in the repos, so I'll see about putting a recent version in my multimedia repo to go along with the updated mpv.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-09-29 05:10:32

i33te wrote:

Any ideas for the naive are well appreciated.

You should update your system more frequently, Iceweasel was killed off some time ago and there have been quite a few critical security updates from Debian since then.

i33te · 2017-09-29 14:37:47

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

i33te wrote:
Any ideas for the naive are well appreciated.
You should update your system more frequently, Iceweasel was killed off some time ago and there have been quite a few critical security updates from Debian since then.

Duly Noted.

i33te · 2017-09-29 14:51:04

@stevep- i have youtube-dl and mpsyt installed via pip so i dont know if that would alleviate that somehow- arent we supposed to let go of flash at this point, even on security issues alone? I found a FF extension watch with MPV im going to try it tonight and see how it plays out.

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Bearded_Blunder · 2017-09-29 14:52:49

Of course, you could have been like me, I had a laptop I didn't update between Etch and #! Waldorf.. simply because it was in a cupboard unused and powered off.. hardly a big "security issue".

Personally I think HoaS can be a little sanctimonious at odd moments, even though he does know way more than me about Linux and I respect his opinions about *that*.

I should have powered on *just to update?" maybe?

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i33te · 2017-09-29 14:58:24

He didnt say anything that wasn't honest. No problems or bad vibes here

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Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-09-29 16:31:05

Bearded_Blunder wrote:

Of course, you could have been like me, I had a laptop I didn't update between Etch and #! Waldorf.. simply because it was in a cupboard unused and powered off.. hardly a big "security issue".

I disagree.

Just picking a single reported security vulnerability at random (from a rather long list):

gdk-pixbuff security advisory wrote:

Marcin Noga discovered a buffer overflow in the JPEG loader of the GDK Pixbuf library, which may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed file is opened.

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3978

That sounds pretty serious to me

B_B wrote:

I should have powered on *just to update?" maybe?

Well, I do actually power up some systems just to update them (Arch is funny like that) but I suppose my CDO OCD may be getting worse

I would think that the rational person would simply remember to run an update before doing anything else, if the computer had not been booted for a while.

@OP: sorry for the diversion.

Bearded_Blunder · 2017-09-29 16:35:16

Well to be fair, the first thing I did with that laptop when I *did* power it on was reinstall, still Debian will generally take months or even years powered off and still update.. I wouldn't try leaving it ages with Gentoo.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-09-29 16:37:06

Bearded_Blunder wrote:

I wouldn't try leaving it ages with Gentoo.

You think that's bad, try (B)LFS... :cry:

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