Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2020

Wayland is a protocol for communication between compositor and clients that is intended to fix long standing flaws of the X11 model. Its lightweight nature results in a significantly better performance in environments that are limited in resources. Since the demand for adding Wayland support to the Chromium browser is high, Igalia is sponsored to design, implement, and upstream that to the Chromium mainstream repository and verify the smoothness of the implementation. Igalia is also driving the effort to make official distribution of the Chrome browser support Wayland for Linux platforms so that users can simply download the browser and enjoy exceptionally good performance of their favourite browsing engine natively on Wayland. This talk will provide a history of the project, explain the idea behind Ozone component in the Chromium project, explore how the Wayland client implementation is designed in the Chromium browser, talk about limitations and design solutions we have had to come up with, compare the performance of Chromium running on X11 and Wayland on the RPi 3 Model B+ board, and close the talk telling the audience what we are currently doing to ship Wayland in Chrome.