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Re:Mozilla Fires Servo Devs and Security Response Teams by fulafel on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @02:59AM (#24129288)
Is the Servo originated engine ( WebRender) doing that well in Firefox? Feels like it's very slow work to make it enabled by default in stable and the speedups haven't been yhat great, meanwhile there are basically 2 very different modes that they have to support and maintain.

(this is just because GPU drivers are so flaky afaict)

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Re:Mozilla Fires Servo Devs and Security Response Teams by sanxiyn on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @03:06AM (#24129331)
It took a long time, but WebRender is now enabled everywhere if you are on Windows 10 (and not on battery power). Current status here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/WebRender_Where
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Re:Mozilla Fires Servo Devs and Security Response Teams by spiderfarmer on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @03:16AM (#24129393)
It's enabled on Windows 10 but unfinished on all other platforms:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/WebRender_Where

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Re:Mozilla Fires Servo Devs and Security Response Teams by fulafel on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @09:24AM (#24131816)
replying to myself, apparently there's a software based webrender code path in developent too, maybe the long term plan is to drop the non-webrender code paths and just fall back to sw-webrender on setups where there are GPU driver problems?
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