While Wayland support depends upon EGL and there has been EGL support within Mesa and the other graphics drivers on Linux for a number of years now, Firefox developers are still hesitant about shipping EGL support by default for Firefox on X11.

Rounding out today's Firefox 60 release comes with promoting Firefox 61 to beta.

Firefox 60.0 is out this morning and it's quite a big update while also being Mozilla's newest ESR release for extended support.

Mozilla has today announced Firefox Reality as "a new kind of web browser that has been designed from the ground up to work on stand-alone virtual and augmented reality (or mixed reality) headsets."

With Firefox 59 having shipped that means Firefox 60 is now officially in beta.

Mozilla's Firefox 59.0 is now available to download from the FTP server ahead of the official announcement.

Mozilla's Servo team is being absorbed by the company's Mixed Reality Team.

A fairly notable update to the Rust programming language compiler and its components is available today.

GFX-RS has been the Rust programming language project for a high-performance, portable graphics API that can map to Vulkan, Apple's Metal, Direct3D, etc from a single Rust API.

Besides Firefox 59 being the release doing away with GTK2 support, this next Mozilla web-browser release might be the one to achieve working native Wayland support.

Mozilla has set free Firefox 58.0 today as their latest "Firefox Quantum" release that continues work on being a performant web browser.

With the launch of Mozilla Firefox 58 slated for next week, WebAssembly will become even faster thanks to a new two-tiered compiler.

Now that Firefox's GTK3 support is finally into shape, Firefox 59 will be doing away with GTK2 tool-kit support.

For those sticking to Firefox Extended Support Releases, the Firefox 60 branch will be the next ESR version.

Mozilla engineers aren't letting up after their Quantum work in Firefox 57 that made the browser much faster. Next they have been improving WebRender and can be tested easily with Firefox Nightly.

The developers behind the Pale Moon web-browser that's been a long standing fork of Firefox have rolled out their first public beta release of their new "Basilisk" browser technology.

There's been a seven year old bug report about enabling OpenGL accelerated layers by default on Firefox for Linux on at least some supported hardware, but Mozilla still doesn't have any plans to do so.

Firefox 57.0 is being officially released this week and its stable download is now available.

The final Firefox 56.0 binaries have hit the mirrors ahead of its official announcement to come. Firefox 56.0 brings more improvements while Firefox 57 "Quantum" will be a huge update.

It's taken more than a decade, but after enough user complaints, there is finally a patch queued for Firefox 57 to fix an arguably annoying default behavior of Firefox on Linux/Unix systems.

Mozilla had several student developers contributing to their next-gen Servo engine via this year's Google Summer of Code. Overall the work appears to be a big success and boost for Servo.

Since the end of July Stylo has been available via Firefox Nightly as the Rust-written Servo CSS style system. For those curious about this modern CSS system and the broader effort as part of bringing Servo/Quantum components to Firefox, Mozilla has out an interesting blog post.

Mozilla's Firefox 55 web browser is now deemed stable while Firefox 56 enters beta and Firefox 57 is the new nightly build.

Stylo, the new style system written for Servo in the Rust programming language, can be enabled in the latest Firefox Nightly desktop builds.

With Firefox 54 having shipped this week, Firefox 55 is now in beta.

Additional web browser news this week is Mozilla's launch today of Firefox 54.

One of the latest milestones being worked on for making the Servo browser engine more usable is WebGL support.

Mozilla Firefox 53.0 has rolled out the door.

Thunderbird 52.0 is now available as the latest stable release for those using this Mozilla-developed mail client.

Mozilla has laid out a proposal for a new low-level graphics API for the web dubbed Obsidian.