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Writers (including the author of Wayland's home page) get enthusiastic about Gnome and KDE ports to Wayland, but what Wayland really needs is a port of either Firefox or Chrome/Chromium, and I've seen very little progress on that score.

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Really? Chromium already has a fairly functional Wayland port [0] and Firefox just needs to upgrade to GTK 3, which is (admittedly optimistically) targeted for 32 [1].

[0] https://01.org/ozone-wayland/blogs/tiagovignatti/2013/chromi...

[1] http://worldofgnome.org/optimistic-target-for-firefox-gtk3-i...

EDIT: Now running the GTK 3 Firefox port in a GNOME Wayland session, and it's working great!

Firefox GTK3 builds are still pre-nightly. We won't uplift such major work, current nightly is 34 with the uplift to 35 on the day after labor day. I would say that 36 would be possible but obviously depends on the work load of Glandium and Emilio Pozuelo.

If you want to test the builds the are available at ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/tinderbox-builds/elm-linux64/ however there is no updater, so you would need to manually do that.

I admit I let my new-desktop-linux* evangelism get the better of me there, since I definitely knew that target was outdated. I should really put my money where my mouth is and try and help with the port.

* There should really be a term for the new emerging desktop linux platform based around systemd and wayland.

>I should really put my money where my mouth is and try and help with the port.

It's more fun to work together than to work by yourself. Maybe you and I should meet up and spend a day working together on the port. (Contact info in my profile.)

Awesome! Just emailed you.

Well, GNOME Web and Konqueror are both very usable.

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