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@d3Xt3r
My understanding is that both Chrome and Firefox work in Wayland, now.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Chrome-Wayland-VA-API#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20limitations%20of,targeted%20the%20libva%2Dx11%20library.
@stammi
That wasn't the point I was trying to make though. :)
Chrome(ium) still doesn't run natively under Wayland by default - you'll need to manually pass specific flags to the executable to tell it to use Wayland. See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/chromium#Native_Wayland_support
Firefox also needed manual flags, but not anymore - Wayland support is enabled by default since version 121, released around three months ago. But some distros had enabled Wayland for Firefox much before that, Fedora being one of them.
@d3Xt3r
No, FWIU with Chrome browsers you shouldn't need special switches anymore.
Are you sure? I just tested it on Fedora 39, using Chrome v123 (Flatpak) and Chromium v123 (repo package), both of them were running under XWayland.