Firefox 58 Arrives With Continued Speed Optimizations

[R41N3R]

It probably will grow proper Wayland support only after Quantum WebRender is integrated as everything goes through same compositing rendering engine then

I'm not sure that Webrender is the only to-do here, it can be activated right now and Nightly seems to work well, I thought it is the transition from GLX to EGL. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635134

[monraaf]

Hey Michael, how about support 'Add to home screen' in Phoronix.com as stated here (https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/fi...a-continues/)?

[uid313]

firefox in Fedora hasnt had GTK2 stuff in it for yonks . but IMO firefox will really never be Wayland usable , the only place Mozilla care about the most an thats Windows Users. Linux has a very small userbase compared to Windows Users.

Martin Stránský of Red Hat is working on the Wayland support for Firefox. He been working on it for a very long time though, and perhaps he don't have much help. But he is working on it.

[scineram]

FF58 (which is 7.0 in reality)

Not exactly. That was a bit earlier, over 6 years ago.
https://website-archive.mozilla.org/.../releasenotes/

[treba]

I also test the flatpak-firefox-nightly from time to time (from here: https://firefox-flatpak.mojefedora.cz/). For me it runs pretty smooth, only hotkeys are broken atm. And it doesn't yet allow opengl rendering as that would require glx support.
Judging from the following comment:

All base patches are in tree which means the wayland port can be built/run now. (on glibc systems only due to Bug 1409707). All you need is to build trunk with: ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk3-wayland

it looks like things are going well. Anyway, I'm happy about the new release. The focus on speed over the last year pays off quite well I think. The slow speed in the past was the main reason for many people I know to switch to chrome. As long as firefox plays in the same league as chrome (or even better), there's no reason to go for a less privacy oriented browser. Here in germany firefox still has a strong standing and I hope they can turn around the trend. It looks like they lost quite a few people for firefox 57 as so many extensions were deprecated. But from now on, they have a very solid base.

[Delgarde]

Martin Stránský of Red Hat is working on the Wayland support for Firefox. He been working on it for a very long time though, and perhaps he don't have much help. But he is working on it.

Given how much architectural change has been going on in Firefox, I suspect that most of the delay is less due to his own workload, and more from being blocked on everything else that's being going on... Electrolysis, Quantum, etc...

[froyo]

Wayland support seem to be planned for Firefox 59, if I interpret the change in this bug report correctly: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635134

[Anvil]

Wayland support seem to be planned for Firefox 59, if I interpret the change in this bug report correctly: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635134

59 wont get or be fully wayland operational, i did ask that Martin Stransky but he didnt reply to that answer ( my guess is, he doesnt know. an i wouldnt expect a fully wayland firefox until firefox70

[Cape]

And a Nazi pops up his evil head.

I'm Jewish.
Also evil is who DRMs supports.