Articles & Reviews
News Archive
Forums
Premium
Contact
Categories

Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals

WebKitGTK+ 2.17.92 Brings Improved Wayland Support

Written by Michael Larabel in GNOME on 4 September 2017 at 08:11 AM EDT. 8 Comments

The WebKitGTK+ build of the WebKit rendering engine for GNOME desktop applications has seen measurable Wayland improvements ahead of this month's GNOME 3.28 debut.

WebKitGTK+ 2.17.92 improves the CPU Usage when running under Wayland with accelerated compositing. WebKitGTK+ also now improves the memory consumption of the user-interface process when running under Wayland.

WebKitGTK+ 2.17.92 also fixes some rendering issues, a potential web process crash, and more. There is also now support for cookies and screenshot commands in the WebDriver.

More details here.

8 Comments

GNOME Mutter Lands NVIDIA Hybrid GPU Copy Acceleration

GNOME Improving Integration With systemd-homed, Mockups For An OS Installer

GNOME's Mutter Lands DRM Sync Obj v1 Support For Explicit Sync On Wayland

LLVM BOLT Optimizations Net ~6% Improvement For GNOME's Pango

GNOME 46 Released With Improved Search, Experimental VRR & More Polish

About The Author

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.