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Firefox 94 To Start Using EGL On Linux

Switching the Linux graphics stack from GLX to EGL.
Hi there! This is a guest post from Robert Mader, who contributed enormous improvements to Firefox’s graphics stack on Linux. TL;DR In the upcoming Firefox 94 release we will enable the EGL b…

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What is the difference between GLX and EGL? Is GLX legacy standard/technology?

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OpenGL is the full ‘stack’, it’s very heavy and has a whole lot of inefficient parts. EGL is more like OpenGL Core profiles, but even more constrained, they are quite fast and efficient overall, however driver support was less refined for EGL, though I think that’s pretty well a solved issue at this point.

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