1844027 - enable wayland by default on Ubuntu 22.04.2 and newer (for touch scrolling on touchscreen displays)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1836342

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P3)

Description

[Dan]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

Steps to reproduce:

Open Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04.2 on a device that has a touchscreen and try scrolling up/down on a website by moving a finger up/down

Actual results:

text is marked instead of scrolling

Expected results:

website should scroll up/down

Comment 1

[Dan]

(Firefox shold always start with environment variable MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND enabled)

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 3

[Darkspirit]

bug 1836342 has been done at least for Ubuntu 23.10:
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/firefox-snap-with-wayland-enabled-by-default-in-ubuntu-23-10-mantic-minotaur/38660