7 years ago: Someone asks to build Firefox with Wayland support.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635134
Until now Firefox does still not support Wayland properly, which causes blurry text on HiDPI screens.
This is sooo f***in' annoying! 😡
@thomas but I don't see any hidpi related bugs in the dependencies. So maybe it's a different problem somewhere else like fontconfig?
@thomas but they say it is a gnome problem, why blame and shame mozilla?
@saper because offering native Wayland support für Firefox would be a solution. But after 7 years Firefox still hasn't proper Wayland support.
@thomas they clearly say in the bug they are using gtk and gtk's support for wayland.
okay, I have to admit: I'm using the experimental "fraction scaling" feature in Gnome, which lets me choose scaling factors other than 100% and 200% (e.g. 125%, which is perfect). Still this is frustrating. How long have HiDPI screens been available now?
@thomas Have you tried changing layout.css.devPixelsPerPx in about:config on firefox? I found setting it to 1.25 on my HiDPI laptop at home worked well.
@benofbrown ye, I've tried. Doesn't improve anything. Just scales the blurry text up.
This is more an issue about Fractional Gnome Scaling in combination with Wayland and Xserver compatibility layer.
Native wayland applications run great and sharp. But as soon as any XServer (cpmpatibility) kicks in, things are getting blurry.
Native Wayland support for Firefox would be a solution, but obviously Mozilla rather likes doing useless stuff instead of making Firefox a native W. app.
@thomas That's a shame, it works well on old-skool xorg. Obviously native support would be better but I was hoping it would be an effective stopgap.
@thomas
In Fedora 28 I have a Firefox on Wayland besides"Firefox"
@benofbrown
@thomas Wer weiß heute schon, was aus #Wayland wird. Vor sieben Jahren wusste das erst recht niemand.
What's going on with Wayland? Who knows? You can't know it now and seven years ago.