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This is the best summary I could come up with:
While some Linux distributions like Fedora and Arch are enabling the native Wayland back-end for Firefox by default, upstream Firefox continues to not enable this Wayland support as part of their default builds.
Martin Stransky of Red Hat who is known for his Firefox work on Fedora today outlined the Firefox Linux improvements made last quarter.
He mentioned that the "Wayland backend is gaining momentum at Mozilla upstream."
There's this bug tracker for the status of shipping the Wayland back-end for Firefox releases.
Mozilla's Sylvestre Ledru commented last week that he's in favor of going ahead with the change as long as it's documented properly.
Martin also outlined in his Q3 Firefox Linux status blog post that dbus-glib has also been dropped as a build dependency for Firefox, Firefox supports a new kiosk mode, there is a new idle monitor/service implemented, and other Linux improvements.
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