1227528 - Aquarium demo is slower on Firefox than on Chrome

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1073112

(Core :: Graphics: CanvasWebGL, defect)

Description

[Cornel Ionce [:noni] [Hubs QA]]

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0
Reproduced on Windows 7 64bit using Firefox 43 beta 6, build ID: 20151123113812.


Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Firefox using a clean profile
2. Open http://webglsamples.org/aquarium/aquarium.html and set the number of fishes to 4000.
3. Click on Advance and set the speed to max (4) and fish speed also to max (2).
4. Make sure that under Options, everything is selected.
5. Observe the FPS.
5. Repeat with google chrome and compare the results.

Results:
The demo is quite slower on Firefox, compared to chrome. Firefox has only 15 FPS while chrome has 24-25 constantly.

Notes:
Had the same results on Firefox 39 also.
I'm attaching the graphics section.

Screenshot Firefox: http://i.imgur.com/znBkr3v.jpg 
Screenshot chrome: http://i.imgur.com/y0MAdlZ.jpg

Comment 1

[Guilherme Lima]

Bug 1073112 is about a regression on this test.

Comment 2

[Benoit Girard (:BenWa)]

Looks consistent with Bug 1073112