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Last edited by TheBlackCat; 10 June 2014, 08:58 AM.
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Originally posted by mark45 View PostAnd no, moving to gtk3 isn't that big of a deal because (1) moving to gtk3 has been in the works for a long time and still no end in sight and (2) gtk3 itself isn't fully ported to Wayland. Working on Wayland is one thing, and working well and supporting all the Wayland features is another thing.
Gtk3 hasn't implemented DND for Wayland yet and has other unsolved issues which could be finished by Wayland 1.6 and only after this can Firefox start to seriously think of moving to gtk3 to support Wayland after that.
Robert Kaiser (:[email protected]) 2012-04-05 10:10:26 PDT
Mozilla stuff is not a "gtk application", we only use GTK for a few specific things like getting the theming of our XUL widgets right. Our work to remove direct usages of X Bitmaps and go for GL for everything is way more relevant to potentially running on Wayland than any GTK stuff is.
Notice the "Depends on" section which lists all the bugs that need to be resolved for Wayland support in Firefox.
Bug 720523 - Use cairo image surfaces with OpenGL layers on linux
Bug 1015218 - Use Cairo image surfaces and XShmPutImage instead of XRender on GTK/Linux OMTC basic
Bug 788319 - Consider using EGL instead of GLX with Mesa drivers
On top of that those bugs have other bugs which need to be resolved so it is a long or even a very long way until Firefox will support Wayland.
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Originally posted by TheBlackCat View PostYou can move all the buttons and the search bar past the address bar, so not being able to move the address bar has no real impact other than sometimes making moving stuff around take longer.
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I just updated. Too bad, the official Mozilla build is still using gstreamer 0.10. The only change is potential to enable gstreamer 1.0 at build time. But one will have to build it manually (or use distro packages configured against gstreamer 1.0).
Switching to GTK 3 has one thorny issue, namely plugins which are stuck with GTK 2. Hopefully projects like Mozilla Shumway will catch up.Last edited by shmerl; 10 June 2014, 12:12 PM.
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Well, gstreamer-1.0 build seems to work fine here (tested on youtube) and guess what, it will use VAAPI for video decoding if the corresponding plugin is installed! I do have one really anoying issue. Restoring tabs from previous session doesn't work anymore. It only opens my home page. Not sure if my old profile is problematic or not, but I don't want to lose my preferences and what not.
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Originally posted by shmerl View PostI just updated. Too bad, the official Mozilla build is still using gstreamer 0.10. The only change is potential to enable gstreamer 1.0 at build time. But one will have to build it manually (or use distro packages configured against gstreamer 1.0).
Switching to GTK 3 has one thorny issue, namely plugins which are stuck with GTK 2. Hopefully projects like Mozilla Shumway will catch up.
While it pains me knowing that mozilla doesn't care much about linux i understand them.
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Yes, Flash is one of the main things which can't be migrated to GTK 3. So that's why Shumway can help (if it will mature enough). See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627699
And adding Wayland to the mix, even if one will be able to run Flash alongside GTK 3 based Firefox in a separate process, it won't play well with Wayland without some ugly hacks. Flash really should die out already, but replacements should be adequate (and Shumway is not ready yet).Last edited by shmerl; 10 June 2014, 01:55 PM.
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Originally posted by shmerl View PostYes, Flash is one of the main things which can't be migrated to GTK 3. So that's why Shumway can help (if it will mature enough). See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627699
And adding Wayland to the mix, even if one will be able to run Flash alongside GTK 3 based Firefox in a separate process, it won't play well with Wayland without some ugly hacks. Flash really should die out already, but replacements should be adequate (and Shumway is not ready yet).
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Originally posted by marazmista View PostYea, I know, but pre FF29 I had search bar and address bar next to tabs (like IE), and now only search bar can go there. No big deal of course, but there is sort of bad taste about new interface.
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