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Wayland-Proxy Load Balancer Helping Firefox Cope With Wayland Issues
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Shipping as part of Firefox 121 is wayland-proxy as a C++ module to serve as a Wayland proxy load balancer.
Among the Firefox Wayland bugs, one of the top crash bugs is over a lost connection to a Wayland compositor.
For dealing with it is to have a proxy between Firefox and the Wayland compositor to cache messages and prevent compositor message queue overflows.
Martin Stransky with Red Hat wrote Wayland-Proxy as a C++ version of a prior proof-of-concept written in Rust.
Wayland-Proxy can work either as a standalone application or a library called upon by Wayland apps.
Those wishing to learn more about Wayland-Proxy and its Firefox use can see today's post on Stransky's blog.
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