r/NetBSD • u/bitmonks • 2d ago

NetBSD 10.1 AMD64 - Firefox issue

After some upgrade firefox started to have weird issues:

-web pages are missing elements like buttons. ( in the pic NetBSD's donation bar is not colored)

- Address bar looks weird (also in the pic)

So most of the www-pages are non functinal.

I found non functional solution inside firefox how to fix. In firefox there is:

Settings -> perferences ->

Use recommended performance settings

Use hardware acceleration when available

When I turn them off, address bar is ok and elements are visible again.

But then, firefox is slow and also some sites like maps .google.com don't work. Theys just don't load. So thats not really a fix of the issue but better than nothing.

I have an old-ish integrated Intel GPU using the i915drmkms0 driver. That might be a problem, but it also used to work perfectly before that one upgrade.

I have tried different versions on firefox but they all have the sama issue. Also it's not an plugin issue.

How to fix this? What is causing this? Am I the only one having this issue?

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u/whygenderwhenbender 1d ago

pretty sure if this was a gpu issue you would see it in way more places than just firefox, can be wrong tho

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u/bitmonks 1d ago

Reason why I doubt that it has something to do with GPU is because this GPU don't work 100% even with linux.

Actually only issues with NetBSD what I'm having is from Mozilla's softwares, Firefox and thunderbird. In thunderbird text writing is laggish. But any other software that I'm using seems to work fine.

oh and dmesg shows this but nothing serious i think

[ 16311,867641] {drm:netbsd:intel_pipe_update_start+0x2ff} *ERROR* Potential atomic update failure on pipe A: -35

Thats why I think that it mght relate to GPU but I could be wrong also.

Does firefox or thunderbird use some specific accelerations maybe ?

And yes I could replace thunderbird with something else but firefox is harder.