Re: Firefox ESR EOL

[Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2021-12-27 at 08:39 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 08:14:17AM +0000, Tixy wrote:
> > On Sun, 2021-12-26 at 22:17 +0000, piorunz wrote:
> > > On 21/12/2021 01:06, Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> > > 
> > > > As of a day ago, Firefox 91 is now in stable.  My thanks to the
> > > > maintainers of the firefox debian packages and the build toolchains for
> > > > working on this.
> > > 
> > > I extend my thanks to Debian maintainers also! On both my machines I
> > > have removed Mozilla's ESR binary and all downloaded files, and reverted
> > > back to using Debian's ESR, process was smooth and easy, all my profiles
> > > are working just fine.
> > 
> > I've done the same, however graphics acceleration doesn't work for me,
> > so to avoid screen tearing when watching video, I have had to start
> > using a Chrome based browser (Vivaldi). Hopefully the Firefox graphics
> > situation will be fixed at a point before Google removes the APIs ad
> > blockers and I can continue to enjoy a tear and ad free browsing
> > experience.
> > 
> 
> Hi Tixy,
> 
> What's the machine / graphics chipset. Other people are experiencing lockups
> occasionally.

CPU is Intel i7-9700 and graphics is what's built into that. I'm
running X server not Weyland.

Old ESR Firefox would do acceleration if I went to about:config and set
layers.acceleration.force-enabled = true
That doesn't work on the new ESR Firefox (or the Mozilla binary for
same version).

Vivaldi and Google Chrome happily do tearfree video rendering out of
the box (when running fullscreen). As do media players like VLC.

Kernel messages for graphics driver...

# journalctl | grep i915
Dec 27 07:50:52 computer7 kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] VT-d active for gfx access
Dec 27 07:50:52 computer7 kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
Dec 27 07:50:52 computer7 kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem:owns=io+mem
Dec 27 07:50:52 computer7 kernel: mei_hdcp 0000:00:16.0-b638ab7e-94e2-4ea2-a552-d1c54b627f04: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_hdcp_component_ops [i915])
Dec 27 07:50:52 computer7 kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin
Dec 27 07:50:52 computer7 kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Finished loading DMC firmware i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin (v1.4)
Dec 27 07:50:52 computer7 kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] failed to retrieve link info, disabling eDP
Dec 27 07:50:52 computer7 kernel: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20200917 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
Dec 27 07:50:52 computer7 kernel: snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915])
Dec 27 07:50:52 computer7 kernel: fbcon: i915drmfb (fb0) is primary device
Dec 27 07:50:53 computer7 kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] fb0: i915drmfb frame buffer device

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Tixy