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(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
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