Re: Firefox Wayland article (Fedora 31)

[Martin Stransky <stransky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul,

I can't moderate (approve) comments under the FF article - can you give 
me such permission?

Thanks,
ma.

On 11/1/19 12:08 AM, Paul Frields wrote:
> I think I took care of this earlier today. Let me know if it's still a
> problem and sorry for late email. I worked on it much earlier. 😁
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 5:59 AM Martin Stransky <stransky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Thanks a lot for fixing/publishing that.
> >
> > There's a minor glitch in the article remaining - about:config links
> > point to "https://fedoramagazine.org/firefox-tips-for-fedora-31/config
> > instead" of "about:config" - can that be fixed?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Martin
> >
> > On 10/24/19 3:01 PM, Stephen Snow wrote:
> > > 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.
> > > > > > >
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