[arch-general] Firefox Fullscreen Fix

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 21:37:14 EDT 2009


On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Andrei Thorp<garoth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> With the latest Firefox (3.5) with closed Nvidia drivers providing
> libGL, Firefox (or something) segfaults whenever you try to fullscreen
> a flash video (try youtube).
>
> Searching around, I've found a fix: simply export this in your environment:
> export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1
>
> You can just put this in your zsh/bash/whatever profile/config, or
> make a wrapper script for firefox or something.
>
> I'm contemplating filing a bug with us. Do you guys think it's worth
> doing? Is it with us?

It's definitely an upstream bug, nothing we can do to fix it. Does the
official install of firefox have the same issue?


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