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Joliflower@lemmy.mlBanned to Linux@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox's Wayland Backend Soon

www.phoronix.com

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Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox's Wayland Backend Soon

www.phoronix.com

Joliflower@lemmy.mlBanned to Linux@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago
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  • shadowintheday@beehaw.org
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    Firefox is surprisingly one of the few programs that has no/almost no glitches in wayland with nvidia.

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      The total of human days of work amounts to something like 1000 years+. Its a an incredible project.

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      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.

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        You mean like https://tauri.app/ ?

      • Mixel@feddit.de
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        I think there is something like that but it’s really not popular and I’m not even sure it’s maintained anymore

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      Try it with multiple monitors. Unless I manually enable native wayland, it flickers just like most other xwayland windows.

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        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

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        I think he meant Firefox running under native Wayland.

  • kib48@lemm.ee
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    3 years ago

    it’s not already enabled??

    • Joliflower@lemmy.mlBannedOP
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      I think it was an option. Not by default

    • AProfessional@lemmy.world
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      Fedoras package enabled it by default.

      • Secret300@sh.itjust.works
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        Noice

    • cow@lemmy.world
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      It’s an environment variable. I have MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=true in my sway wrapper script.

    • GustavoM@lemmy.world
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      It was a “hidden feature”, pretty much.

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    Interestingly enough, Ubuntu 23.10 enables this by default https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/firefox-snap-with-wayland-enabled-by-default-in-ubuntu-23-10-mantic-minotaur/38660

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    Well good thing I finally realized it wasn’t enabled and set my environment variables to enable it.

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    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).

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      Huh, I’ll give that a go as occasionally some black blocks and other artifacts appear for me- thought that it couldn’t handle high def or something.

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    Will this fix copying from the url bar in kde?

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      Where the copied content would sometimes disappear from the clipboard? Iirc that’s a KDE bug being fixed in 6

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        I just can’t copy anything from the URL bar at all.

        • Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de
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          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

  • fraydabson@sopuli.xyz
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    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.

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      Global menus work by exporting the menu over DBus. It has no relation to x11 or Wayland.

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