Firefox-98.0-1 seems broken

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With ssh opening it I get more output.

[ray@pi4 ~]$ firefox
Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: glxtest: X error, error_code=1, request_code=155, minor_code=1 (t=1.59671) [GFX1-]: glxtest: X error, error_code=1, request_code=155, minor_code=1
Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: glxtest: X error, error_code=1, request_code=155, minor_code=1 (t=1.59671) |[1][GFX1-]: glxtest: process failed (exited with status 1) (t=1.59684) [GFX1-]: glxtest: process failed (exited with status 1)
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Those are the drm messages I mentioned above. I get them with 97 too, but it works.

Edit: Why the test fails? I have wondered and thought one of these days I would bring it up. Seems it should work on a rpi4 with v3d.

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I guess the test might require a particular opengl version. I discovered that alacritty will not run a rpi4 with v3d due to the required level of opengl. But interestingly… it will run on an rpi4 with software rendering. llvmpipe supports a higher version of opengl than does the v3d.

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I tried llvmpipe and no go either.

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Just a note, 98 is working on x86_64.

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Dis you check at this following page How to debug Firefox problems - Fedora Project Wiki ?

I’ve found it while reading this :

They give lots of commands to test.

The first one to use may be the following one:

firefox --safe-mode

Hope it helps.

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Safe Mode did not seem to have an effect, when I ran firefox --safe-mode.

So I wonder what changed between 97 and 98 for ARM devices?

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Maybe

LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1

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I messed with this some more today. I have a 32 bit arch-arm install and upgraded firefox to 98.0 and it does what it is supposed to. It appears this is an aarch64 issue. They have the same issue on arch arm also.

https://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=15938

I compiled Firefox Nightly today and it has the same issue.

My 32 bit install:

firefox-32bit
firefox-32bit1680×1050 246 KB

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Maybe we should keep 97 series for now…

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At least in Manjaro-Arm Firefox 97.0.2 works. In Ubuntu Repo Firefox 97.0.2 for arm64 doesn’t function fully as WebGL is not enabled and cannot be enabled via “about:config” for whatever reason.

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Had the same problem on the Pinephone with Phosh. Downgrading to to firefox 97.0.2-1 worked, only slight annoyance with the new profile being created…

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Usually it tells you specifically why it’s disabled.

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Weird that they have let this go on for 12 days. Looks like the only one doing any work trying to find the issue is the guy who reported it.

@Strit bird dogging:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1757571

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Not really sure why. Hope is just a one off upgrade issue and will not be the same with the upcoming Firefox 98.0.1.

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same issue from Alarm 98.0.1 build.

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Just a quick update on Firefox 98.0.1. Firefox-98.0.1 on Ubuntu Focal launch successfully and WebGL is available (somehow WebGL was not available on Firefox 97.0.2 on Ubuntu Focal).

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Alarm 98.0.1-1.1 build work.

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they said 98 will set wayland by default, but its not.

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I confirm this as working and is now in our unstable repo. Arch Arm has applied a patch to temporarily revert the commits that causes this issue until it is fixed.

https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/aarch64/firefox/files/revert-crossbeam-crates-upgrade.patch