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.

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    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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