#1004358 weston: Firefox is significantly slower on weston compared to X, on an i386, 32 bit machine.

Package:
weston
Source:
weston
Description:
reference implementation of a wayland compositor
Submitter:
Date:
2022-01-25 18:09:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1004358#5
Date:
2022-01-25 17:16:50 UTC
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To:
Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?
   Used forefox 91.5.0esr on weston.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?

   Installed weston and firefox using aptitude.  Also set as suggested.
   peter@joule:/home/peter$ grep MOZ .bashrc
   export MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1

   According to
https://wiki.debian.org/Wayland#Firefox_.28supported.29
   firefox runs natively on wayland.  Ie. firefox doesn't require
   Xwayland.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
   Firefox is noticeably less responsive on weston, compared to X.
   Also note the messages near the bottom of the stderr output from
   weston, copied below.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
   According to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protocol)
   I expected firefox to be more responsive on weston, compared to X.

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