On GNOME Firefox runs with disabled system titlebar by default. It saves horizontal space on wide screens but also removes control over window, traditionally provided by Window manager and desktop environment. GNOME allows to set titlebar actions by gnome-tweaks tool, you can define window actions for double click by first mouse button, middle click andContinue reading “Firefox 124 supports GNOME titlebar actions”
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Wayland proxy load balancer
Updated Dec 23 Wayland clients (applications) may face various difficulties not primary caused by them. There are three main Wayland compositors (Mutter/Gnome, KWin/KDE and WLRoots/Sway) and every compositor behaves differently in some corner cases not exactly defined by Wayland standards (or bents the specification somehow). In X11 world an underlying X.Org implementation is the sameContinue reading “Wayland proxy load balancer”
Mozilla ships Firefox 121.0 with Wayland enabled
Firefox on Linux hit another milestone as Mozilla defaults to Wayland backend instead of XWayland X11 emulation in Firefox 121. It’s a logic step as XWayland emulation introduces bugs from both Wayland and X11 worlds together so better run Wayland directly. As Fedora has provided Firefox on Wayland backend for years, this change affects mainlyContinue reading “Mozilla ships Firefox 121.0 with Wayland enabled”
Q3 Firefox Linux update
Let’s highlight some updates of Firefox development from Linux perspective for last three months. Wayland backend is gaining momentum at Mozilla upstream. It’s enabled by default in Fedora/Arch Linux but Mozilla is a bit hesitant and runs Wayland for Nightly/Beta only. Mozilla official binaries, Ubuntu/Snap and Mozilla/flatpak switches to XWayland mainly due to missing testContinue reading “Q3 Firefox Linux update”
Firefox on Linux update
It may look like Firefox development is stalled and frozen but nothing could be further from the truth. 22 300 patches landed in Firefox Mercurial repository since new year and we keep hacking 😀 Let’s look what’s new in Firefox on Linux and what could be interesting for Fedora users.