Wayland-Spun Firefox Is Being Given More Time To Get Ready For Fedora 30

[Jabberwocky]

This is good news. I like the idea of a replacement for X but so far Wayland seemed to be in practice a host for shims to run X apps. A native web browser is the most important thing Wayland could get, besides a terminal emulator.

+1 Those two things and more people testing it with various configurations.

[shmerl]

Looks like GPU accelerated video encoding / decoding in Firefox isn't moving anywhere. Quite annoying for WebRTC video calls on a relatively weak laptop.

[Geopirate]

This is good news. I like the idea of a replacement for X but so far Wayland seemed to be in practice a host for shims to run X apps. A native web browser is the most important thing Wayland could get, besides a terminal emulator.

This is working as intended. The real value for developers will be when they can stop working on the X version and fully commit to the Wayland version. That requires a world where everyone is running Wayland and all X apps are run as a shim, so when the X apps die, it's a seamless transition to native Wayland apps. Red Hat switching over to Wayland will probably get us a lot closer to this, Fedora feeds into Red Hat so.....

[woprandi]

Now we just need Flatpak support

[KellyClowers]

This is good news. I like the idea of a replacement for X but so far Wayland seemed to be in practice a host for shims to run X apps. A native web browser is the most important thing Wayland could get, besides a terminal emulator.

There are several terminals that are wayland native, and as far as I am aware most "standard" GTK3 and QT5 apps run in wayland mode by default when running a wayland compositor. The browsers (or browser-based apps, electron and such) are the one big thing that hasn't been moved over yet.