- shadowintheday ( @shadowintheday@beehaw.org ) English71•1 year ago
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.
- 30p87 ( @30p87@feddit.de ) 33•1 year ago
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.
- featherfurl ( @featherfurl@lemmy.ml ) 12•1 year ago
You mean like https://tauri.app/ ?
- Mixel ( @Mixel@feddit.de ) 6•1 year ago
I think there is something like that but it’s really not popular and I’m not even sure it’s maintained anymore
- Lojcs ( @Lojcs@lemm.ee ) 5•1 year ago
Try it with multiple monitors. Unless I manually enable native wayland, it flickers just like most other xwayland windows.
- shadowintheday ( @shadowintheday@beehaw.org ) English16•1 year ago
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
- Limitless_screaming ( @Limitless_screaming@kbin.social ) 12•1 year ago
I think he meant Firefox running under native Wayland.
- redcalcium ( @redcalcium@lemmy.institute ) 2•1 year ago
Heck, I have a single monitor and it flickers too.
- kib48 ( @kib48@lemm.ee ) English24•1 year ago
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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- GnuLinuxDude ( @GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ) 17•1 year ago
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
- LinuxSBC ( @LinuxSBC@lemm.ee ) 14•1 year ago
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).
- knoland ( @knoland@kbin.social ) 14•1 year ago
Will this fix copying from the url bar in kde?
- OsrsNeedsF2P ( @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ) 20•1 year ago
Where the copied content would sometimes disappear from the clipboard? Iirc that’s a KDE bug being fixed in 6
- knoland ( @knoland@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
I just can’t copy anything from the URL bar at all.
- Zamundaaa ( @Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•1 year ago
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
- 1984 ( @1984@lemmy.today ) 11•1 year ago
I’ve been using this environment variable to enable Wayland for at least a year… No issues.
- helloyanis ( @helloyanis@jlai.lu ) Français4•1 year ago
I’m out of the loop, what’s the wayland backend?
- ryannathans ( @ryannathans@aussie.zone ) 4•1 year ago
But I have been manually enabling it with a system environment variable and confirmed it was native wayland. No xwayland
- fraydabson ( @fraydabson@sopuli.xyz ) English3•1 year ago
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.