Firefox 94 To Start Using EGL On Linux - Better Performance, Lower Power Use

[Tolkem]

Hi everyone! Hope you're all having a nice life!
Just bumped into this while checking my feed https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Firefox-94-EGL-Linux-Usage
An excerpt:

Firefox using EGL on the Linux desktop should yield better WebGL performance, lower power consumption thanks to supporting partial screen updates / damage, less bugs due to the EGL code being in better shape, and also makes hardware video decoding by default one step closer to reality on Linux.

 

[kc1di]

Interesting wonder when it will make it into the MX repositories
so far newest there is 93.xxx

 

[Tolkem]

Interesting wonder when it will make it into the MX repositories
so far newest there is 93.xxx

It hasn't been released yet. I think it'll be next month. However, you could try Firefox beta, which is already 94, I use it, and it's quite stable https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/

 

[kc1di]

Thanks.

 

[MatsuShimizu]

It's been released now:

Firefox 94.0 release: here is what is new and changed - gHacks Tech News

Firefox 94.0's release date is November 2, 2021. The new stable version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser introduces new features and fixes bugs.

www.ghacks.net

 

[craigevil]

firefox:
Installed: 94.0-1
Candidate: 94.0-1
Version table:
*** 94.0-1 500
500 https://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main arm64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status