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Chromium Ozone Support For Wayland Continues Progressing In 2025


Google engineers themselves haven't been energetically pursuing Wayland support within the Ozone abstraction layer for the Chrome/Chromium web browser but thankfully the consulting firm Igalia continues pushing this native Wayland support along

Igalia engineer Nick Yamane who has been working on this code thanks to sponsors summed up the current Ozone Wayland state as: The exception is Nvidia setups, which, depending on the driver version, may face major regressions (see Explicit Sync section below for more details). Those wanting to learn more about the current Chrome/Chromium Ozone Wayland state can read Nick's blog post for all the details in full.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.

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