Firefox 124 supports GNOME titlebar actions

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”

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”

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”

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