Wayland-Based Chromium Browser Released

[shaurz]

I wonder when Google will make the switch to Wayland on Chrome OS. My guess is sometime in 2014, but I suppose it depends on if they can get drivers working for all existing Chrome OS devices.

[smitty3268]

Yet they have been consitently releasing a browser that uses far less memory than Chrome ever since v21, they also push for open internet standards such as ASM.js rather than NIH solutions such as NaCl, so I wouldn't be sayng that they have a 'mentality from the 90's'.

Firefox can do a lot quickly on issues they care about, but linux integration has never been one of those. Anyone expecting quick Wayland support from Firefox needs to lower their expectations.

[tarceri]

Quite a milestone i might add.


Come on Firefox people.

Firefox to Wayland bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635134

[rudregues]

Fedora and Ubuntu binaries are currently available...

What about Gentoo ebuilds? I didn't find even an overlay...

[dee.]

Yet they have been consitently releasing a browser that uses far less memory than Chrome ever since v21, they also push for open internet standards such as ASM.js rather than NIH solutions such as NaCl, so I wouldn't be sayng that they have a 'mentality from the 90's'.

I think he was talking about LO only

[intellivision]

Yeah, Firefox and especially LibreOffice will take years, the latter might take 5+ years since it's got lots legacy code and mentality from the 90'.

Yet they have been consitently releasing a browser that uses far less memory than Chrome ever since v21, they also push for open internet standards such as ASM.js rather than NIH solutions such as NaCl, so I wouldn't be sayng that they have a 'mentality from the 90's'.

[BSDude]

good times, good times indeed.

[mark45]

Quite a milestone i might add.


Come on Firefox people.

Yeah, Firefox and especially LibreOffice will take years, the latter might take 5+ years since it's got lots legacy code and mentality from the 90'.

[89c51]

Damn these journalists!
It's not a release, it's a preview release, big difference implied. Still awesome news.

Quite a milestone i might add.


Come on Firefox people.

[mark45]

Damn these journalists!
It's not a release, it's a preview release, big difference implied. Still awesome news.