firefox 84 features?

[Jan Beich]

Ronald Klop <ronald-lists at klop.ws> writes:

> Hi,
>
> In the release notes the following is mentioned.
> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/84.0/releasenotes/
> WebRender rolls out to MacOS Big Sur and Windows devices with Intel
> Gen 5 and 6 GPUs. Additionally we'll ship an accelerated rendering
> pipeline for Linux/GNOME/X11 users for the first time, ever!
> Firefox now uses more modern techniques for allocating shared memory on Linux, improving performance and increasing compatibility with Docker.
>
> Are these Linux items also relevant for FreeBSD? Just curious.

Ask upstream to link the relevant changes/bugs in release notes.
Trying to extract precise informating from marketing fluff is hard.

Major features like WebRender likely go through staged rollout i.e.,
disabled by default but enabled via shield studies, feature addons, etc.
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/source/modules/libpref/init/StaticPrefList.yaml#4441-4452

"shared memory" is probably https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1440203
which appeared in www/firefox since 83.0 (backported) and supported on
FreeBSD >= 13.0 since https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21393