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Re:Firefox 94 to start using EGL on Linux by morsch on Saturday October 30, 2021 @08:44AM (#29048336)
Will you be affected? Here's the gist from the article: As of Firefox 94, users using Mesa driver >= 21 will get it by default. Users of the proprietary Nvidia driver will need to wait a little bit longer as the currently released drivers lack an important extension. However, most likely we’ll be able to enable EGL on the 470 series onwards. DMABUF support (and thus better WebGL performance) requires GBM support and will be limited to the 495 series onwards.

Ubuntu 21.10 currently comes with the 470 series driver.

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Re:Firefox 94 to start using EGL on Linux by mnd999 on Saturday October 30, 2021 @09:12AM (#29048489)
Even Arch doesn’t ship the 495 yet. It’s coming though.
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Re:Firefox 94 to start using EGL on Linux by Svenstaro on Saturday October 30, 2021 @09:45AM (#29048709)
Well in Arch we have the drivers in testing with an extended period to give users a chance to report issues. You can already get them and help us test! We'll likely move them next week.
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Re:Firefox 94 to start using EGL on Linux by 5e92cb50239222b on Saturday October 30, 2021 @11:30AM (#29049547)
You're doing God's work. I don't use nvidia drivers, but do enjoy my Arch Linux installations very much. They are always up to date, but very rarely break in practice (IME, YMMV). Thanks for everything you do.
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Re:Firefox 94 to start using EGL on Linux by lipnitsk on Sunday October 31, 2021 @03:13PM (#29059486)
It does now: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/commits/packa...
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