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Firefox 146 Now Available With Native Fractional Scaling On Wayland (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
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The Mozilla Firefox 146.0 release binaries are now available with a very exciting improvement for Linux users relying on Wayland.

With Firefox 146, the most exciting change for this last browser release before the holidays is: "Firefox now natively supports fractional scaled displays on Linux(Wayland), making rendering more effective."

Yes, Firefox on Linux is now natively supporting fractional scaling on Wayland!

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[–] 18 points 11 months ago* (10 children)

Excellent news! Now I need to find a Linux distro that has fractional scaling built in so I can see stuff on my giant screen for everything else not in Firefox

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Fedora gnome and I think kde handles it well too

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I think it's been available but hidden in Gnome for quite a while now, yeah.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Some distros are preconfigured with it hidden some have it shown

    No idea why they don’t all have it 🤷‍♀️

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    From what I can tell, the performance cost was too great until recently, but I forget what they changed to make it suck less for games. I still don't use it because it causes what I can only describe as "weirdness" with resolutions in games, though.

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    • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Very cool! A while ago I found that instead of using fractional scaling, things were smoother for me if I set Gome's text scaling factor in accessibility settings. I think most GTK UI scales based off that value? It's pretty helpful for me, even though I'm not actually using Gnome anymore. But if fractional scaling support has gotten better, maybe I'll switch my approach.

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