It's Now Easier Trying Firefox Wayland Support On Arch Linux & Flatpak Distributions

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67335

    It's Now Easier Trying Firefox Wayland Support On Arch Linux & Flatpak Distributions

    Phoronix: It's Now Easier Trying Firefox Wayland Support On Arch Linux & Flatpak Distributions

    A Phoronix reader has taken to improving the situation around being able to deploy Mozilla's Firefox web-browser natively on Wayland, particularly for Arch Linux distributions as well as those distributions supporting both Wayland and Flatpak...

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  • edoantonioco
    Senior Member
    • Apr 2013
    • 489

    #2
    If QT 5.8 wouldnt have completely broke wayland on plasma 5, I would try it.
    But anyway, it would probably not work at all on plasma 5. This is because recent versions of GTK3 doesnt work on Kwin on Wayland (gtk switched to a newer version of xdg shell and dropped support for the older version, the one than kwin supported)

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    • Steffo
      Senior Member
      • Jan 2013
      • 604

      #3
      The flatpack image is a debug build.

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      • LeJimster
        Senior Member
        • Aug 2015
        • 296

        #4
        What about Chromium? Are their any native builds on Wayland yet? I might give this Firefox a go if its noticeably more responsive.

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        • theghost
          Senior Member
          • Sep 2013
          • 346

          #5
          Nice work.
          I wonder why Red Hat is patching Firefox for Wayland? Aren't there no resources on Mozilla?

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          • uid313
            Senior Member
            • Dec 2011
            • 6920

            #6
            Originally posted by theghost View Post
            Nice work.
            I wonder why Red Hat is patching Firefox for Wayland? Aren't there no resources on Mozilla?
            A patch was recently merged into Firefox, but generally speaking my understanding is that development of Wayland for Firefox has been going very slow.

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            • uid313
              Senior Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 6920

              #7
              Originally posted by LeJimster View Post
              What about Chromium? Are their any native builds on Wayland yet? I might give this Firefox a go if its noticeably more responsive.
              The Firefox built mentioned in this article is a debug build. So it might not be fast.

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              • Vistaus
                Senior Member
                • Jul 2013
                • 5110

                #8
                Originally posted by LeJimster View Post
                What about Chromium? Are their any native builds on Wayland yet? I might give this Firefox a go if its noticeably more responsive.
                Chromium works natively on Wayland. Just install it from AUR.

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                • Vistaus
                  Senior Member
                  • Jul 2013
                  • 5110

                  #9
                  Strange how Firefox seems to work on Wayland. The past few weeks people on here were saying that Firefox wouldn't run on Wayland at all but it seems like it's possible somehow after all...

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                  • LeJimster
                    Senior Member
                    • Aug 2015
                    • 296

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Vistaus View Post

                    Chromium works natively on Wayland. Just install it from AUR.
                    Thanks, will try that.

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