There Finally Is Work On Shipping Mozilla's WebRender For Some Linux Environments

[phoronix]

Phoronix: There Finally Is Work On Shipping Mozilla's WebRender For Some Linux Environments

While Mozilla has been gradually enabling WebRender out-of-the-box in more Windows configurations with succeeding Firefox releases, up to now there hasn't been much visible effort in getting WebRender enabled out-of-the-box for any Linux configurations. But fortunately that is finally changing...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=WebRender-For-Some-Linux

[Aryma]

look like Mozilla didn't treat linux as first-class but the most of userbase of firefox comes from Linux

[LinAGKar]

look like Mozilla didn't treat linux as first-class but the most of userbase of firefox comes from Linux

I don't think that's possible, because I'm pretty sure there are still significantly more Firefox users than Linux desktop users.

[Brisse]

look like Mozilla didn't treat linux as first-class but the most of userbase of firefox comes from Linux

One only has to take a quick glance at netmarketshare.com to see that this statement is a so called "alternative fact".

[Vistaus]

look like Mozilla didn't treat linux as first-class but the most of userbase of firefox comes from Linux

[R41N3R]

So far the OpenGL backend seems to work better than Webrender for me in Firefox Developer Wayland, it consumes less CPU power and feels more fluent. Tested on 2 Intel systems.

[cl333r]

I don't think that's possible, because I'm pretty sure there are still like 20 times more Firefox users than Linux desktop users.

Fixed that for you.

[oleid]

So far the OpenGL backend seems to work better than Webrender for me in Firefox Developer Wayland,

Which OpenGL backend are you talking about?

[shmerl]

I'd prefer some progress on switching to Vulkan/WSI.

[R41N3R]

Which OpenGL backend are you talking about?

As far as I know there is Basic (default), OpenGL and Webrender. I enabled only layers.acceleration.force-enabled without Webrender to see in about:support OpenGL as compositor.