As of last nightly (20181115100051), Firefox now supports Wayland on Linux, thanks to the work from Martin Stransky and Jan Horak, mostly.
Before that, it was possible to build your own Firefox with Wayland support (and Fedora does it), but now the downloads from mozilla.org come with Wayland support out of the box for the first time.
The transition to Wayland seems to be taking its time, but with how big of an undertaking this is, that only makes sense.
Is Wayland not just another lower level display mechanism for X? I think I need to go read more.
No, that`s new display server.
Incorrect. Wayland is a protocol for compositors like mutter, kwin as defined on https://wayland.freedesktop.org/.
Well, at least the link helps. An implementation of wayland does both the work of a display server and the compositor.
Unlike prewayland versions of mutter and kwin, it does not require xorg or any other display servers.
Doesn’t Firefox use GTK or some other toolkit for its UI? Surely, that would remove any need to depend on a specific display server explicitly. So what is display server-specific in Firefox?
It used a ton of X11 hacks to do various special bits.
Which is not worth it. Wayland is basically crippled crap just like Gnome 3 aimed at enticing dumb-assed gamers and the crappy games they play which will never actually be ported over.
Just ask the Moronic Amiga Users like Thom who kept going on about this kind of nonsense on their platform years and years ago.
I know. I owned an an Amiga years ago too and it was this sort of nonsense that ended up driving me along with a huge number of other people away from the platform because the more we kept hearing it the more we realized that the Amiga wasn’t going to have a future, just like what Wayland and Gnome 3 is doing to the Linux Desktop.
Edited 2018-11-18 15:29 UTC
“This Operating System is for big boys only!”
You really mean Wayland/Gnome3 is for Mentally-Deficient Facebook-Using Teletubbies like yourself don’t you?
Edited 2018-11-19 17:11 UTC
Don’t cut yourself on all those edges.
Wait… what year did you realize that amiga was dead?
That was obvious to me back in 1995, with the death of Commodore. Any hope beyond that was unjustified.
Hm, ~accelerated rendering of webpages?