We aim to launch the Aura graphics stack on Linux in M35. Aura is a cross-platform graphics system, and the Aura frontend will replace the current GTK+ frontend.
We aim for Chromium to be the best browser across all platforms. While we’ve previously not launched features on all platforms simultaneously, shipping the same graphics stack and UI code on Windows, ChromiumOS and Linux should make it significantly easier to ship features simultaneously on all those platforms, without having to duplicate effort by having to write a separate Linux and Windows version of the feature.
This should also address long standing issues with GPU memory consumption and GPU rendering performance. Using our own graphics stack enables us to have one OpenGL context per window, instead of one OpenGL context per tab, which should significantly reduce GPU resource consumption.
We need your help. The use of Aura on desktop Linux is new and not well tested. We are replacing the entire frontend with a new one. We’re asking as many Linux users to opt into the dev channel as possible. If you’re using trunk builds, Aura has been the default build configuration for a month. If you’re using official Google Chrome builds, you can opt in by typing:
$ sudo apt-get install google-chrome-unstable
into your terminal. You can verify that you are using an aura build by the presence of an ‘a’ badge on the hotdog menu. If you encounter problems, you can quickly downgrade to google-chrome-stable; the unstable channel has its own profile directory on Linux.
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I see that aura is available on Windows, ChromiumOS and Linux. But is there any updates about when aura will be available on Mac? Thanks.
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I see that aura is available on Windows, ChromiumOS and Linux. But is there any updates about when aura will be available on Mac?