Firefox is surprisingly one of the few programs that has no/almost no glitches in wayland with nvidia.
The total of human days of work amounts to something like 1000 years+. Its a an incredible project.
And it needs even less memory than Electron, even if it runs as an own instance with a different profile! I replaced Discord with it a year ago and it’s much better in literally every way. I just wish there would be a FF alternative for Electron.
Try it with multiple monitors. Unless I manually enable native wayland, it flickers just like most other xwayland windows.
I think he meant Firefox running under native Wayland.
I meant using MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1, of course
only glitch recently is that I couldn’t get multi-account containers to work. 2 years ago I couldn’t even open setting’s menu under wayland, so it’s been evolving
it’s not already enabled??
I think it was an option. Not by default
This is the best summary I could come up with:
While some Linux distributions like Fedora and Arch are enabling the native Wayland back-end for Firefox by default, upstream Firefox continues to not enable this Wayland support as part of their default builds.
Martin Stransky of Red Hat who is known for his Firefox work on Fedora today outlined the Firefox Linux improvements made last quarter.
He mentioned that the “Wayland backend is gaining momentum at Mozilla upstream.”
There’s this bug tracker for the status of shipping the Wayland back-end for Firefox releases.
Mozilla’s Sylvestre Ledru commented last week that he’s in favor of going ahead with the change as long as it’s documented properly.
Martin also outlined in his Q3 Firefox Linux status blog post that dbus-glib has also been dropped as a build dependency for Firefox, Firefox supports a new kiosk mode, there is a new idle monitor/service implemented, and other Linux improvements.
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But I have been manually enabling it with a system environment variable and confirmed it was native wayland. No xwayland
I’ve been using this environment variable to enable Wayland for at least a year… No issues.
Would this let global menu (plasma) on Firefox work better under Wayland? I remember someone saying that Wayland was the reason it didn’t work.
Will this fix copying from the url bar in kde?
Where the copied content would sometimes disappear from the clipboard? Iirc that’s a KDE bug being fixed in 6
I just can’t copy anything from the URL bar at all.
Afaik that’s a bug in Firefox, it doesn’t cope well when middle click paste is disabled… As a workaround you can enable it again
Finally. I was having some weird graphical glitches, so I switched it to the Wayland backend, and I’ve not noticed any issues. It’s totally stable (at least for me).
