Re: firefox crashing on startup

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 18:51, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:25:00PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > Are others seeing this?  If it's not just me, what's the get well plan?
>
> Yes, seeing that too.
> Workaround:
>
>         env LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 GALLIUM_DRIVER=swr firefox &
>
> (but it doesn't work well for me, see PR 57398)
>
> > Do we need to revert a firefox update?  Fix something else?
>
> This is probably a NetBSD specific ld.elf_so issue, could be PR 50277,
> but it is not really clear.

I think it should have been downgraded to 111.x until a solution is
found. It is unusable in fact. Try watching a video.

The 'fix' works for me, but of course all WebGL and accelerated video
is gone. Page updates are also much slower than before


>
> Martin

Chavdar

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