Is Google Earth laggy for anyone else?

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Hi,

I got a pretty strong laptop (Legion 5), which should be able to handle Earth, but in any chromium browser it has a noticeable, annoying lag when dragging the map or even photo spheres. On Firefox it’s unusably slow.

Has anyone noticed this and solved it?

Screen recording: Watch earth | Streamable

Operating System: Fedora Linux 44
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.4
Kernel Version: 7.0.8-200.fc44.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
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Looking at the requirements it does require hardware acceleration to be working. I’d make sure that this is working in your browsers.

I don’t notice any issues here in Firefox, though I do believe that WebGL generally works better on Chromium based browsers.