On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 09:51 -0400, Andrei Thorp wrote: > Excerpts from solsTiCe d'Hiver's message of Fri Aug 07 00:44:03 -0400 2009: > > > export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 > > > > that fix was working for me since i upgraded to firefox 3.5 > > > > but since the update of nvidia driver recently and firefox update too. > > this fix does not work ANYMORE. > > Hmm, works for me (I upgraded my nvidia/kernel/xorg/firefox/flashplayer > yesterday). Maybe it's somewhat dependent on card :/ > > > look at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496831 > > and other duplicated bug reports > > > > it is supposed to be fixed. so it's coming in some near future > > Okay, thanks very much for that. I guess I won't file a bug report with > us as it's an upstream issue (kind of why I was asking). We can > technically "fix" it by adding a wrapper to our firefox package to do > that hack, but I'm pretty sure I agree with Aaron (and the devs in > general) in that we should just wait for the aforementioned fix. > We already had such a bug, and I closed it as upstream, as it has something to do with two non-free components that we can't fix. Seems mozilla wants to work this around inside firefox, so it's just to wait for a version that includes their workaround.