Firefox Is Going To Attempt And Ship With Wayland Enabled By Default
Guardrails have been in place the place the Firefox browser has enabled Wayland by default (when working on current GTK variations) however as of in the present day that code has been eliminated… Firefox will attempt to transfer ahead with steady releases the place Wayland will ship by default!
Mozilla Bug 1752398 to “ship the Wayland backend to launch” has been closed this night! After the ticket was open for the previous two years, it is now deemed able to hopefully ship enabled for Firefox 121!
This patch drops the “early beta or earlier” examine to let Wayland assist be enabled by default when working on current GTK variations (GTK 3.24.30 threshold).
Firefox 121 is due for launch round 19 December and if all continues to carry, it is going to lastly ship with the Wayland back-end enabled by default as one other huge step ahead. With KDE Plasma 6.0 using Wayland by default, XWayland rootful mode improving, and different (X)Wayland progress, 2024 may very effectively be the 12 months of Wayland shining within the Linux desktop limelight.