Firefox 94.0 Released With Linux Build Using EGL For Better Performance, Power Savings

[chuckula]

Strange. I'm running 94a on my laptop under GNOME/Wayland, and that works fine. Is it a regression with the release version?

Firefox has on the whole been working well with Wayland for a few releases. 93 did have a regression displaying menus under non-GNOME compositors which required patching, I hit it running Sway. There has been significant performance work with Wayland support for WebRender direct composition in the last couple of versions, still a few bugs remain in that area but are being quickly worked out. It's also resulted in fixes and improvements to Wayland compositors themselves, at least GNOME and wlroots saw improvements as a result of Firefox implementing otherwise untested functionality.

I'm using it on Plasma (latest 5.23) and it does have some glitches in tearing off tabs from windows that can put the window in a state where it won't respond to user inputs on some buttons. Additionally, the clipboard functionality between firefox & other outside programs basically works but it can glitch and break sometimes. I think both issues are at least generally known to the developers of both projects and will hopefully be resolved soon.

[lamka02sk]

The system-ui CSS font-family

Firefox supports system-ui font family since 92.

[uid313]

Firefox supports system-ui font family since 92.

My bad, you're right, I forgot about that, I thought it was only on Mac.

[ResponseWriter]

Does it wayland?

It's working here (use MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1). For me it did freeze for several seconds before crashing entirely, but the crash was probably this bug again. After that it's been quite usable and very responsive.

[Monsterovich]

I'm not upgrading until they bring back the old look that was in 89.0.

[dkasak]

I'm not upgrading until they bring back the old look that was in 89.0.

LOL that will hurt "them"

[Monsterovich]

LOL that will hurt "them"

That won't hurt me either.

[plasmasnake]

That won't hurt me either.

It can if there are any unpatched vulnerabilities in the version you're running.

You could probably upgrade and find a theme that makes it look like the older version that you prefer.

[ssokolow]

I'm not upgrading until they bring back the old look that was in 89.0.

Check the Firefox subreddit. They generally have userchrome.css patches to revert these "dumb changes for the same of change which take the browser ever further from platform-native" promptly.

That's where I found the fixes for the aspects of it I cared about.

[Gonk]

Check out CustomCSSforFx. It is basically the successor to the Classic Theme Restorer extension that stopped working with FF 57. With that and now CustomCSSforFx I've managed to keep Firefox looking close to the same for almost a decade now.