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Update Firefox from 79.0 to 80.0 #1864

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@pmenzel pmenzel commented Aug 25, 2020

Tested on inbetweenmove.

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donald commented Aug 25, 2020

Release Notes: "We’re still preparing the notes for this release, and will post them here when they are ready. Please check back later." :-)

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pmenzel commented Aug 25, 2020

Release Notes: "We’re still preparing the notes for this release, and will post them here when they are ready. Please check back later." :-)

Yeah, they still haven’t been published. Tomorrow maybe.

@pmenzel pmenzel force-pushed the update-firefox-from-79.0-to-80.0 branch from ee2fb0d to e30c0f0 Compare August 25, 2020 11:55
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/80.0/releasenotes/

[Hardware accelerated video decoding with VA-API can now be used][1].
Big thanks go to Red Hat to actually pay developers to work on that.

    $ MOZ_X11_EGL=1 firefox
    $ MOZ_X11_EGL=1 MOZ_LOG="PlatformDecoderModule:5" firefox

Unfortunately, [the old AMD graphics card included by Dell do not support
VP9 de-/encoding][2], so the add-on [enhanced-h264ify][3] can be used to
work around that.

    inbetweenmove:~$ ssh donut lspci -nn | grep VGA
    05:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Oland [Radeon HD 8570 / R7 240/340 OEM] [1002:6611] (rev 87)
    inbetweenmove:~$ vainfo
    libva info: VA-API version 1.3.0
    libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0
    libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
    libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_3
    libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
    vainfo: VA-API version: 1.3 (libva 2.3.0)
    vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 20.0.1 for AMD Radeon (TM) Pro WX 5100 Graphics (POLARIS10, DRM 3.39.0, 5.9.0-rc1.mx64.342, LLVM 9.0.1)
    vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
          VAProfileMPEG2Simple            :	VAEntrypointVLD
          VAProfileMPEG2Main              :	VAEntrypointVLD
          VAProfileVC1Simple              :	VAEntrypointVLD
          VAProfileVC1Main                :	VAEntrypointVLD
          VAProfileVC1Advanced            :	VAEntrypointVLD
          VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:	VAEntrypointVLD
          VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline:	VAEntrypointEncSlice
          VAProfileH264Main               :	VAEntrypointVLD
          VAProfileH264Main               :	VAEntrypointEncSlice
          VAProfileH264High               :	VAEntrypointVLD
          VAProfileH264High               :	VAEntrypointEncSlice
          VAProfileHEVCMain               :	VAEntrypointVLD
          VAProfileHEVCMain               :	VAEntrypointEncSlice
          VAProfileHEVCMain10             :	VAEntrypointVLD
          VAProfileJPEGBaseline           :	VAEntrypointVLD
          VAProfileNone                   :	VAEntrypointVideoProc

[1]: https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/firefox-on-fedora-finally-gets-va-api-on-wayland/
[2]: https://www.notebookcheck.com/AMD-Radeon-HD-8570D.96579.0.html
[3]: https://github.com/alextrv/enhanced-h264ify
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