Comment 20 for bug 1889784

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In , Marko Popović (macrox95) wrote :

(In reply to Martin Stránský [:stransky] from comment #17)
> (In reply to Marko from comment #15)
> > I know, but it's a regression... shouldn't regressions have higher priority than implementing new features like X11 backend etc... the part that is bad about this is that in 78 it works perfectly without any issues, and in 79+ is annoying to use again just like with frame skipping bug before, and yet there are new features being worked on without finishing old ones first.
> > Obviously it's up to Martin to decide since he is a contributor and FF devs don't care enough to provide tge feature, but as a linux laptop user, I would really like to see this having a higher priprity :) didn't mean to be rude or anything.
>
> The patch is on the way. I prefer to unify X11/Wayland VA-API/dmabuf backends and then do all the fixes for both together, that lowers the maintenance cost. This is really still an experimental feature so please accept potential breakage during the development (and I also have other duties at Red Hat).

Thnaks for the clarification about X11/wayland common backend.

Don't worry Martin, we owe you eternal gratitude for implementing this feature in Firefox after so many years the issue was neglected by other developers!