Run Firefox on Wayland?

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This is how I do it:

Firefox - Add environment variable to enable Wayland Hardware Acceleration in Firefox and Thunderbird

To makes sure Firefox is using Wayland for Hardware Acceleration you can add the environment variable “MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1”.

In EndeavourOS:

(1) Make the environment directory:

mkdir ~/.config/environment.d

(2) Create the envvars.conf:

nano ~/.config/environment.d/envvars.conf`

(3) Add the following line to the ~/.config/environment.d/envvars.conf file:

MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1

(4) Reboot

(5) Launch Firefox and verify Windows Protocol is set to ‘Wayland’:

(a) Navigate to “about:support”`

(b) Look for “Windows Protocol” = wayland `

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