Re: Firefox Wayland article (Fedora 31)

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I think this would be a good thing judging by some of the topics and
comments at ask fedora.

Stephen

On Thu, 2019-10-24 at 08:19 -0400, Paul Frields wrote:
> Thanks for this overview Martin. We can call this article something
> like
> "Helpful hints for Firefox users on Fedora," if folks agree. Go ahead
> and
> draft it and we'll see about getting it published soon.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 4:28 AM Martin Stransky <stransky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Paul,
> > 
> > It generally should pass such messages to users:
> > 
> > - Wayland is default backend for Firefox, if anything goes wrong
> > try to
> > install/run Firefox-x11 package (you may also set is default at
> > settings
> > in this case).
> > 
> > - Flash plugin does not work under wayland, it's disabled. Use
> > firefox-x11 for it.
> > 
> > - To save energy/CPU cycles you can enable HW acceleration by
> > setting
> > layers.acceleration.force-enabled to true at about:config.
> > 
> > - File any Wayland related bug at bugzilla.
> > 
> > I think especially flash plugin may cause some confusion as it's
> > not
> > visible under Firefox/Wayland.
> > 
> > ma.
> > 
> > On 10/23/19 11:38 PM, Paul Frields wrote:
> > > Currently the release date looks to be next Tuesday 2019-10-29.
> > > What are
> > > the issues you're addressing? I'm not familiar with them. I do
> > > think we
> > > would like to have an article for sure. Is this something we
> > > should
> > publish
> > > before the release, so users know before upgrading?
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 4:17 PM Martin Stransky <
> > > stransky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > > Guys,
> > > > 
> > > > I'd like to submit an article about Firefox in Fedora 31 to
> > > > cover the
> > > > default Wayland topic, put some advice there and possible
> > > > tweaks, x11
> > > > fallback and so on.
> > > > 
> > > > I'd like to coordinate that with you and I also don't know
> > > > what's the
> > > > Fedora 31 release date / when this article should go out.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > ma.
> > > > 
> > > > --
> > > > Martin Stransky
> > > > Software Engineer / Red Hat, Inc
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