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Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox's Wayland Backend Soon
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this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2023
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I'm out of the loop, what's the wayland backend?
For most apps there's no difference, but dealing with multi-window apps that can spawn new windows, merge them, display video content in its own window etc. there's a lot of communication that Firefox has to do with the technology that draws its window to the screen.
I guess before now, default Firefox setups would've used XWayland to translate those communications which would've worked fine if not for some overhead and edge cases. This would make Firefox a truly Wayland-native application, when running on Wayland.