Firefox keeps crashing, wayland with 4070 ti
Hey,
I can't help but notice a lot of flickering and gui unresponsiveness when using firefox/gnome web on bazzite
It crashes every 5 minutes with the error message: MozCrashReason: MOZ_CRASH(IPC FatalError in the parent process!)
I'm writing this here because it happened to me just on bazzite, so I'm assuming it's distro related
Installed firefox as flatpak (it also happened with the stock firefox that came with the distro)
Any idea why that happens and how to fix it? I have a lead that it has to do with wayland and nvidia
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nvidia issue, fixed in firefox nightly, which cannot be installed as a flatpak.
also stock firefox is the firefox flatpak
solution atm is to use firefox nightly in a distrobox or just temporarily use a different browser until firefox puts the fix into firefox stable
You can use Floorp as an alternatifve, it doesn't crash
Do you have more info about this issue in general? forums just keep blaming wayland and say use x11 without really a proper explanation as for why it's the case
nvidia updated their driver, added more wayland support.
their changes broke firefox on wayland only on nvidia proprietary driver
firefox had to add workaround for nvidias messy change
you know normal nvidia things on linux
I'm switching to AMD so fast as soon as they have proper CUDA support, this is what kept me with nvidia in the first place, blender :(
Do you know if it's possible to make only firefox not use wayland in the meanwhile?
amd will never get "proper" CUDA support since nvidia owns CUDA
hopefully ZLUDA2 will help
I see, do you know how I could edit the desktop then so I can add the environment variable to disable wayland just on firefox?
i dont know the one for firefox, only the one for Qt applications
firefox isnt one
you can also just look at flatseal and see if there is a toggle there
MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 you will need to set it as enviroment variable for firefox flatpak with flatseal or from KDE system settingsI've done it, it doesn't seem to update firefox, added the environment variable as you suggested, anything else after that?
Nevermind, the fix was disabling wayland windowing system in flatseal, looks very blurry now but at least it doesn't crash...
Gnome doesn't have fractional scaling for Xwayland apps yet, that's why it's blurry
firefox keeps crashing in my nvidia PC is there a way to how to fix it
disable wayland on it in flatseal until Nvidia or Firefox fix the problem
or, use X11
Like this?
enable fallback
did it
you need to disable wayland windowing system and add to the variables at the bottom MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0
That fixed it for me
@HikariKnight Just an update, firefox released 130 and it fixed this issue, so no need for this workaround anymore