Firefox 98 and the radeon driver

[gkraemer]

I just updated firefox to v98 and noticed that youtube videos stop playing. When I start firefox from a terminal I get the same error repeatedly:

libva info: VA-API version 1.13.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_13
ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.

apart from media playback firefox seems to run fine but I had one hard system freeze.

I also don’t have any custom environmental variables for mesa set, as far as I can tell.

[mithrial]

Firefox can no longer play video

As of yesterday I’m unable to play video in Firefox. I don’t know if anything changed, there was a small update but I didn’t look carefully exactly what it was for, it just started happening all of a sudden. The issue persists even after a full system restart as well as rebooting my router. This is very problematic, please let me know if anyone else is seeing it and what to do. The issue is universal to all video sources: Youtube, Facebook, etc. The seek bar indicates the data has loaded, howev…