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

submitted 11 months ago by ericjmorey@programming.dev to c/foss@beehaw.org

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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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[-] flamingarms@feddit.uk 3 points 11 months ago

Saw the other comment about Linux and did some searching. Found it on Wikipedia; appears to be a window system for Linux or a protocol that enables a window system for Linux? Don't know enough about this stuff, but here's the link I found: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(protocol)

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