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PSA: Firefox Nightly now with experimental Wayland support

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Re: PSA: Firefox Nightly now with experimental Wayland support

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Post by UI_at_80x24 »

y7 wrote: post #50
jitl wrote: post #18

Great! I recently set up desktop Linux, and was disappointed to find poor support for fractional scaling on HiDPI screens, which I’m used to coming from retina MacBook Pro. Gnome under X11 only has 1x, 2x and 3x scaling. In Wayland, Gnome has experimental support for fractional scaling - including 1.75x, the size I’m used to. However, Xwayland apps like Firefox stable (and chrome) render blurry with fractional scalin…

While it's not as conveninent as desktop-wide fractional scaling, note that in particular Firefox has already had HiDPI support via the layout.css.devPixelsPerPx config variable, which you can set through about:config.

This tip saved me a lot of headache.

I'm currently running KDEv5 and while I got 'most' of the scaling adjusted properly, this setting fixed the size of the tabs, and other annoyances I was experiencing on FireFox.

Thank-you.

Re: PSA: Firefox Nightly now with experimental Wayland support

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Post by ealhad »

vetinari wrote: post #65
ealhad wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The post does mention that it was possible already to build your own Firefox for Wayland, and that's what Fedora does. The point is that the “official” package from mozilla.org now supports Wayland out-of-the-box :)

The Fedora package is being built by exactly the same guy (Martin Stransky from Redhat), who works on implementing Wayland into Firefox. It is not for the first time, that Fedora package had something enabled before the upstream package did: CSDs went the same way.

Thank you for the precision :)

Re: PSA: Firefox Nightly now with experimental Wayland support

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Post by pzone »

pmarreck wrote: post #30

What is this? Is this like a new XWindows client/server where the web browser can act as the client?

Without Wayland support, Firefox running on a Wayland system would have to communicate through the XWayland shim server. Now its default configuration is to communicate directly with the Wayland server.

Re: PSA: Firefox Nightly now with experimental Wayland support

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Post by PerryCox »

arendtio wrote: post #73

I wonder when the first mainstream distribution will make Wayland their default. So far, much time has been spent on that project and yet there is so little normal users get to see it in action.

Fedora made Wayland the default already. [1]

[1]: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/f28/system-admin...

Re: PSA: Firefox Nightly now with experimental Wayland support

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Post by xvilka »

finalfantasia wrote: post #15
xvilka wrote: post #13

Anyone knows, what is the progress of migrating to Servo/WebRender? What parts are still in C++, what parts are being rewritten, and what are not?

They post newsletters[1] about WebRender on a regular basis. [1] https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/webrender-newsle...

It doesn't answer my question though, especially about Servo part and what parts are still C++.

Re: PSA: Firefox Nightly now with experimental Wayland support

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Post by lern_too_spel »

xvilka wrote: post #77
finalfantasia wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They post newsletters[1] about WebRender on a regular basis. [1] https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/webrender-newsle...

It doesn't answer my question though, especially about Servo part and what parts are still C++.

They will never migrate to Servo. Servo is a full web browser used as a platform for testing components of a web browser that have been written in Rust like WebRender. GP's comment answers your question about the status of WebRender.

Re: PSA: Firefox Nightly now with experimental Wayland support

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Post by jadbox »

mbrumlow wrote: post #7
craftyguy wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just curious, are you running the development version of sway 1.0, or the older stable 0.15?

master branch of wlroots + sway (I update nearly ever hour). Sway is the most exciting thing going on right now. Sway is really fast, I don't think the slowness is a problem with sway. I am wondering if my x220's Intel card is just too slow. I will try shortly on a much faster system.

If only wayland worked with NVIDIA drivers, but I've heard that there's some progress happening.

Re: PSA: Firefox Nightly now with experimental Wayland support

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Post by driverdan »

hddherman wrote: post #61
mbrumlow wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am running webrender under xwayland, and it is super smooth. This system is damn near the best laptop I have ever had. I have replaced the bios with core boot and have a fully encrypted luks disk. I get near 15 hours battery life. All that for the price of $150 + plus a few premium upgrades (ssd, and ips panel). My T450s cost me ~$2700 new, and it is faster in some cases, but the cost/performance ratio just does no…

Shooting liquid propane/butane into your laptop is absolutely insane. How does it even help lower the compile times if the CPU probably doesn't even thermal throttle? An X230 that I have can handle a high load without thermal throttling and yours should not be much different, unless the CPU thermals exceed 100C, at which it does start throttling. Please check your cooling setup and replace the thermal paste with some…

I downvoted you because canned air is not propane or butane.
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