Firefox crashes on WebGL and Canvas pages (radeonsi_dri.so)
Using Firefox 31 on Xubuntu, visiting pages which display WebGL or Canvas content produces very frequent crashes, with the cause apparently being a segfault when interacting with the radeon driver. One example that always produces a crash for me is the "Ninja Impact" example from the Phaser.js library. Other ones vary, but usually after viewing one or two WebGL applications (for example, the three.js demos), I get a crash.
Tried the nightly build - same result. No crashes on WebKit browsers.
See example crash here: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/0deedd68-e6bc-4c52-b8f6-745962140730
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That looks like a problem with the display driver (radeonsi_dri.so).
Is there an update available or can you try another (generic) display driver?
Are there any error messages on the troubleshooting information page in the Graphics section?
- Help > Troubleshooting Information
You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.
- Edit > Preferences > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"
You need close and restart Firefox after toggling this setting.
Disabling hardware acceleration didn't change anything. If this really were a driver problem, I would expect to see the same behavior in all browsers - WebKit based ones don't crash for me (and also have better WebGL performance).
Latest crash:
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/31fca0e0-13ff-4501-8d5d-29c552140801