Tips Firefox - The Gentleman's Browser Of Choice For Online Slots

[ChopleyIOM]

So I've recently been having a few lengthy slots sessions over at VS and I've been getting irked by how, over the course of a few hours, slots can start to run janky, with jerky animations and a general feeling of being laggy and unpleasant to look at.

This happens in either Chrome or Edge (makes sense since they both run on the same engine). Closing the browser and opening it again sorts it, but after an hour or two, or three, the jankiness creeps back in and keeps getting worse.

This was pissing me off the other night so I decided, for old time's sake, to give Firefox a whirl, a browser I haven't used for years, and guess what, it doesn't have this problem at all.

In my case it definitely isn't a PC issue, I'm on a gaming PC that can chuck Cyberpunk 2077 around with all the ray-tracing turned on, it's not wanting for power, it's just something crappy in the Chromium engine that Chrome and Edge use. Firefox however, uses its own engine called Gecko, and whatever afflicts Chromium if you're lumping away at a BTG slot for hours, Gecko rises above it.

I also have loads of stuff open on my PC at any given time, sometimes running a game in Windowed mode at the same time as everything else, or having the fruit machine emulator running. Once again, Firefox doesn't miss a beat in this scenario.

Anyway, might be worth you giving it a go if you've been experiencing the same issue, whatever spec of machine you're running on.

 

[thr0b]

Aye, it's pretty much the same on Mac. I have an ancient MacBook Pro (so ancient that it's hacked to run Big Sur), and the other browsers are terrible for slots, but Firefox runs just dandy.

I also have an M1 Mac Mini, and oddly I'd not thought to try Firefox with it, as it runs everything just fine anyway. But I can't see how it couldn't be better, and as I'm sat at that Mac right now, may as well try it.

 

[kou187]

I like to use chrome because I have the volume master chrome add on. When slots are too loud or quiet you can adjust the browser tab volume with this app. However if Firefox have a similar extension then I would use Firefox. I didn't realise slots ran better on Firefox. But now I'm intrigued

 

[ChopleyIOM]

I like to use chrome because I have the volume master chrome add on. When slots are too loud or quiet you can adjust the browser tab volume with this app. However if Firefox have a similar extension then I would use Firefox. I didn't realise slots ran better on Firefox. But now I'm intrigued

The way I do it is use different browsers for different things, so Firefox is exclusively for the slots, Chrome is for YT, and Edge is for everything else, that way I can control the volume on a per browser basis and only affect one thing.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

Sounds like it's a thing though.

DISCLAIMER - I haven't tried this for myself.

 

[kou187]

Sounds like it's a thing though.

DISCLAIMER - I haven't tried this for myself.

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Agh nice one. I shall give it a try later and see how things are on the Firefox side of things.
Cheers choppers!

 

[justdoit]

I use Opera GX on my macbook,

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[Guntis]

Here are some things to try in chrome://flags settings. It likely would be helpful for older devices. Some clever bots are suggesting this.

GPU Rasterization: This flag can help offload some of the rendering work to the GPU, reducing CPU load and possibly improving performance during prolonged sessions.

Flag: #enable-gpu-rasterization

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Override Software Rendering List: Forces Chrome to utilize your GPU for rendering, which might help maintain smoother performance in graphic-heavy slot games.

Flag: #ignore-gpu-blacklist

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Zero-Copy Rasterizer: Reduces memory usage by allowing the GPU to write directly to screen memory, which can improve performance and reduce lag in graphic-heavy environments.

Flag: #enable-zero-copy

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QUIC Protocol: By improving data transmission efficiency, the QUIC protocol can reduce latency and improve the overall responsiveness of online games.

Flag: #enable-quic

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Background Tab Throttling: Limits the resources used by tabs that are in the background, freeing up CPU and memory for your active tab where the slot game is running.

Flag: #enable-background-tab-throttling

 

[kou187]

Here are some things to try in chrome://flags settings. It likely would be helpful for older devices anyway. Some clever bots are suggesting this.

GPU Rasterization: This flag can help offload some of the rendering work to the GPU, reducing CPU load and possibly improving performance during prolonged sessions.

Flag: #enable-gpu-rasterization

---

Override Software Rendering List: Forces Chrome to utilize your GPU for rendering, which might help maintain smoother performance in graphic-heavy slot games.

Flag: #ignore-gpu-blacklist

---

Zero-Copy Rasterizer: Reduces memory usage by allowing the GPU to write directly to screen memory, which can improve performance and reduce lag in graphic-heavy environments.

Flag: #enable-zero-copy

---

Enable QUIC Protocol: By improving data transmission efficiency, the QUIC protocol can reduce latency and improve the overall responsiveness of online games.

Flag: #enable-quic

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Enable Background Tab Throttling: Limits the resources used by tabs that are in the background, freeing up CPU and memory for your active tab where the slot game is running.

Flag: #enable-background-tab-throttling

Thanks for the info. I have made all these changes to my chrome. See what happens see if i notice any difference

 

[ternur]

I don't like to get involved in these political threads, but it's a known fact, that if you use any other browser than Firefox, you're using the internet wrong.

 

[ChopleyIOM]

I had Firefox running BTG's Rasputin for a nine hour continuous session today, no restarting of the browser in that time. In Chrome or Edge that just wouldn't be a thing at all, it'd be turning into a slideshow by the end of it, but Firefox was as silky smooth after nine hours as it was in the first minute.

Its general memory and resource use seems to be far better than Chrome/Edge too, all round a much better coded browser IMO.

I'm old enough to remember when Chrome was the slick new kid on the block, showing up the dinosaur of IE for the bloaty sack of crap it was. Now Chrome is the bloaty sack of crap....

 

[Sonict]

I have been a Firefox user for a long time. Back when Internet Explorer 6 was king, I had enough of how bad IE was so I decided to look elsewhere. At the time, I downloaded Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 ( a name that changed to... Firefox! ). Nowadays, I use "WaterFox".

 

[thr0b]

Of course, Camino was the best browser back in the day on Mac.

It was a Mac-native version of Mozilla. Sadly, long abandoned

 

[mcgameboy]

I don't like to get involved in these political threads, but it's a known fact, that if you use any other browser than Firefox, you're using the internet wrong.

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Is this a rare moment of clarity from CM's resident dipsomaniac I see before me?!?!

There has to be a reason behind this. And I'm not sure I am ready to hear it.....

Was yesterday your annual "alcohol-free Saturday" by any chance?
I hope such a thing does not exist in your life, because if it does, I will be SOOOOO fucking disappointed in you, man.....

 

[ternur]

Is this a rare moment of clarity from CM's resident dipsomaniac I see before me?!?!

There has to be a reason behind this. And I'm not sure I am ready to hear it.....

Was yesterday your annual "alcohol-free Saturday" by any chance?
I hope such a thing does not exist in your life, because if it does, I will be SOOOOO fucking disappointed in you, man.....

We all have our weak moments.

 

[L&L-Jan]

over the course of a few hours, slots can start to run janky, with jerky animations and a general feeling of being laggy and unpleasant to look at.

I had the same when I was playing a new Rick and Morty (Fire jackpots) at Party. Since I have a direct channel with their support guys, I reported this. Question: What browser? Where I normally use Chrome, this time I was on Firefox as something didn't work on Chrome. So I said: Firefox. They said: ow, we don't support that. The next day in Chrome, all the weird stuff that happened in Firefox did no re-occur.

 

[thr0b]

I don't like that Chrome is the "default". We're back to where we were 25 years ago, where IE's dominance led to developers developing shite for the worst browser, which had no reason to improve because everyone used it.

Rarely in the last ten years has Chrome been close to the best.

 

[09237653]

FF is essential for my daily browser usage and is loaded with addons and ad/script blockers which play havoc with most casinos so i still stick to chrome for casinos.

 

[justdoit]

Arc is not bad fast and easy to use , they have AI also

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[satchnz]

I had the same when I was playing a new Rick and Morty (Fire jackpots) at Party. Since I have a direct channel with their support guys, I reported this. Question: What browser? Where I normally use Chrome, this time I was on Firefox as something didn't work on Chrome. So I said: Firefox. They said: ow, we don't support that. The next day in Chrome, all the weird stuff that happened in Firefox did no re-occur.

This is the one reason why I haven’t moved to Firefox yet. A very small selection of pages I visit regularly do not support Firefox (work related), hence why I’m still using Edge. I moved from Chrome years ago.

Will need to move to Firefox soon given ad blocking isn’t supported on the recent or upcoming Chromium codebase changes (not sure if they are live yet).

 

[slot_zombie]

I'm using Brave with a multitude of sponsored ad blockers for Facebook, Reddit etc. Seems to work well enough for slots..I won't change because the built in YouTube ad blocking is magical.