Martin Stransky highlights some recent major achievements for #Firefox on Linux: ""HDR video playback support, reworked rendering for fractionally scaled displays, and asynchronous rendering implementation. All this progress was enabled by advances in the Wayland compositor ecosystem, with new features implemented by Mutter and KWin.

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And there are even more challenges waiting for us Firefox Linux hackers:

Wayland session restore […]
Utilize the fractional-scale-v2 protocol when it becomes available. […]
Vulkan video support via the ffmpeg decoder to enable hardware decoding on NVIDIA hardware.""

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Firefox & Linux in 2025

HDR YouTube video clip I used for testing Last year brought a wealth of new features and fixes to Firefox on Linux. Besides numerous improvements and bug fixes, I want to highlight some major achie…

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