“But as Wayland is gaining momentum also EGL is getting more attention and fixes on Linux desktop.” It’s not fully supported by all desktop drivers and has glitches,” explains Martin Stransky. “EGL is “new” from Linux desktop perspective and used mainly by Wayland, Android and various small devices.
This means that features made for Wayland, such as better VSync support or suspended rendering for invisible windows, will also be available for X11. After upgrading to Firefox 94, Intel/AMD users should notice faster WebGL rendering, more effective rendering, and possibly VA-API video decoding in the near future.Īccording to developer Martin Stransky, EGL also unifies the rendering path for X11 and Wayland. This feature replaces the old GLX implementation and promises to offer a performance boost on Intel/AMD hybrid machines. The biggest new feature of the Firefox 94 release is the enablement of the EGL (OpenGL) API for handling graphics context management on X11 for Intel/AMD users using recent Mesa graphics stacks.
Mozilla’s Firefox 94 web browser is now available for download ahead of the official launch on November 2nd, 2021.
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