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Firefox Is Going To Try And Ship With Wayland Enabled By Default (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/5946015

Guardrails have been in place where the Firefox browser has enabled Wayland by default (when running on recent GTK versions) but as of today that code has been removed...

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (10 children)

It's not clear to me after reading the article. Maybe I'm out of the loop but...

What's Wayland? And why is this significant?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

There are 2 display servers for Linux. X11, which is really old and doesn't support newer things such as HDR and the "new" kid on the hlock, Wayland. KDE, Gnome and such that make the UI you interact with on Linux utilize X11 or Wayland to render everything on the screens.

Edit correction by LinuxSBC x2

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hey that explanation helps. Thanks.

It sounds like Wayland is the new thing and it's been around long enough that everyone plays well with it, so it's going to be the default moving forward.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Yeah it's been getting there over the years. This stuff takes time to replace since it's huge and important to get it right. For reference, the initial release was 15 years ago for Wayland.

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