I prefer desktop, I tend to have a lot of tabs running and different browser windows for work and personal so it just gets lost. More on reddit.com

The Desktop app is slightly better than using Figma in a web browser because: on the Mac you get application menus (saves a click because you don’t have to use the Figma menu) you can choose where to download exports assets (and you don’t have to unzip them) you get access to locally installed fonts (while you can install something just to get this feature, if you’re going to install something, I say just install the full app and get the added benefits) ⁠files automatically open in new tabs and there’s a dedicated home button to quickly get back to your files you can switch back/forth to the app using your OS app switcher you get a little more screen space to design with as you don’t have part of the web browser interface wasting screen space More on reddit.com

I looked everywhere for the answer for this and finally found it elsewhere. Figma is likely using your integrated graphics. To fix this (if you have an NVIDIA card like me at least) Go to your system tray, NVIDIA control panel > Manage 3D settings > select program tab > Find Figma or Chrome.exe (whichever you design on) > Select your high performance GPU. Hope this helps anyone else that has the same issue. Figma will not do this by default. More on reddit.com

Thank you! Was encountering this issue with Brave Browser and Figma and saw people suggesting this. BTW I have a 3060 Ti. More on reddit.com