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Will this make Firefox the best browser on Linux by default then? Also, as mentionned in the bug thread, if nouveau is actually stable on Newer versions, simil
by fhrow4484 8y ago
Will this make Firefox the best browser on Linux by default then?
Also, as mentionned in the bug thread, if nouveau is actually stable on Newer versions, similar to User Agents, the newer nouveau versions could change their name to bypass the blacklisting. No need to pretend to be NVIDIA, just something different that nouveau, like 'nuevo' or something.
- marcinzm 8y agoPer the comment from abrowne Firefox does not do hardware acceleration by default on Linux for any hardware. So same as Chrome for Nouveau but Chrome does support acceleration for other drivers out of the box. It seems slightly easier to enable it for Firefox but both browsers provide a way to enable acceleration if you want to take the risk.
- geofft 8y agoCan't they also use GL_VENDOR / GL_RENDERER and parse version numbers out of it?
- marcinzm 8y agoChromium said they'd do that if someone tested which Nouveau versions work fine and provided a test suite to use. Ilia Mirkin (in the link) said he tried to run their test suite but got errors on the latest Nouveau (possibly due to a browser issue). So as it stands now Chromium doesn't know which if any versions of Nouveau are stable.