Run Firefox on Wayland?

Wayland will persevere!

Right now in Extra-Testing firefox 121.0-1

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same same :hugs: Also i was a GNOME user not anymore but still have GNOME installed to troubleshoot and test stuff out.

I’m a little on the mission to support the GNOME part of the forum, it’s gotten a lot better, there was a time when GNOME users didn’t even dare to write here anymore.

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I remember that…I lurked but didn’t post much… As you might have seen, I dropped nVidia this year & went with Intel—bought an Arc A750 & have been following the Xe driver for Linux topic fairly closely…So you know the 2 main areas I monitor…

As soon as the Xe driver becomes available, I will be testing it…I will make sure to report my findings…I will note with the current Mesa update, gaming on the A750 has improved quite a bit.

Hi Joe,

I was doing some testing in KDE (Plasma v: 5.27.10) in a Wayland Session and noticed after upgrading to Firefox 1.21.0 64 bit that no re-size cursor shows when you mouse over the borders when Firefox is locked to the left or right side of the screen.

I’ve filed the bug here to be investigated:

Note Re-size works in the following conditions:

  • If you make Firefox free floating (no locked to left or right of the display) you will be able to see the cursor change to resize.

  • If you sign into Gnome 45 (Wayland Session) and lock Firefox to the left or right screen you are able to see the resize cursor.

  • If you sign into KDE (X11 Session) and lock Firefox to the left or right screen you are able to see the resize cursor.

And other windows will show resize option?

Running FF 121.0 right now. I’ve long since set my .bash_profile to use Wayland if that’s the session I start in. I’ve not really noticed much of a difference but I’m also all AMD with my setup which, as I understand, is better supported.

If I was having any difficulties with Wayland though, I’d just go back to XOrg. I really don’t have any strong preferences, just been running Wayland because it seems that Linux is finally trending that way and I might as well get familiar with it.

Hi Joe,

So I tested in a KDE Session having an application locked to the left side of the screen and no resize option available:

Fail - Firefox

Pass- Geany

Pass - Both Geany and Firefox side by side trying to re-size: