All Chrome based browsers laggy with hardware acceleration enabled

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Probably since switching to Wayland a couple years ago I’ve noticed that all Chrome based browsers start to get laggy when hardware acceleration is enabled. This applies to Chrome, Brave and Vivaldi. My video card as reported by lspci is [AMD/ATI] Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6600/6600 XT/6600M].

By laggy I mean upon entering a tab, it can take up to 3 seconds for any response of the keyboard or mouse by the browser. Load doesn’t have to be high, like one YouTube video, and another browser Window. Or a Google Meet, and another window. Or sometimes just Gmail, and nothing else. This all goes away when I disable hardware acceleration.

I don’t experience anything like this with Firefox even when hardware acceleration is enabled there.

What I’m curious about is if this is perhaps a quirk on my system, or just expected?

Other details include:

  • Fedora 41
  • SwayWM, though I’ve tested for this under Gnome and it happens there to
  • CPU is a Core i7-12700KF.

Thanks for any input!