[arch-general] Firefox Fullscreen Fix

Sven-Hendrik Haase sh at lutzhaase.com
Thu Aug 6 21:37:48 EDT 2009


On 07.08.2009 03:33, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. wrote:
> +1 for bug report
>
> 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?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -Andrei "Garoth" Thorp
>>
>>     
>
>   
Definitely a good idea, go for it. On a related note, thanks a lot for
posting this here because I became quite annoyed by the bug and wasn't
sure where the problem originated from.


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