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(a)redhat.com>
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(a)redhat.com>
> 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
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Fedora Magazine mailing list --
> > > magazine(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> > > To unsubscribe send an email to
> > > magazine-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> > > Fedora Code of Conduct:
> > >
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
> > > List Guidelines:
> > >
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
> > > List Archives:
> > >
>
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@lists.fedoraprojec...
>
> --
> Martin Stransky
> Software Engineer / Red Hat, Inc
>
>
_______________________________________________
Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
To unsubscribe send an email to
magazine-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Fedora Code of Conduct:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
List Guidelines:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
List Archives:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@lists.fedoraprojec...