Pictures being intermittently being overlaid with a color "splash" in chromium but not in firefox

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Something like this…?

[Stable Update] 2024-01-13 - Kernels, Systemd, Qt5, Mesa, Dbus, Firefox, Thunderbird

Well, something weird happened to me with this update. Installation this morning was successful, dbus-broker as default, kernel 6.6.10-1, restart, no errors, I can login, network ok, internet ok, it seemed another boring update. I noticed the problems while browsing internet (Brave Browser). Strange artifacts appear on screen as you can see in these screenshots: [1b] [2b] [3b] First the screen was ok and as I move the mouse, suddenly this artifacts appear. Reading newspapers with…

The culprit is Mesa 23.3.3. Restore the 30Dec 2023 snapshot and ignore Mesa updates with IgnorePkg:

[Stable Update] 2024-01-13 - Kernels, Systemd, Qt5, Mesa, Dbus, Firefox, Thunderbird

You’re right. I restored again the timeshift snapshot from before the update, repeat all the update except these ten packages and after the reboot had no problem, no artifacts, VLC plays AVI again. lib32-libva-mesa-driver-1:23.3.3-1 lib32-mesa-1:23.3.3-1 lib32-mesa-vdpau-1:23.3.3-1 lib32-vulkan-intel-1:23.3.3-1 lib32-vulkan-radeon-1:23.3.3-1 libva-mesa-driver-1:23.3.3-1 mesa-1:23.3.3-1 mesa-vdpau-1:23.3.3-1 vulkan-intel-1:23.3.3-1 vulkan-radeon-1:23.3.3-1 So I’ll include these packag…