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Firefox crashes with NVidia 331.20 (Linux 64bit)

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Jamesc359
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As the title says, Firefox crashes immediately upon opening when using NVidia's latest stable drivers (331.20). The last stable driver that Firefox works with is 319.60. This issue only afflicts Firefox. All other HW accelerated programs I've tried work. Anybody have any ideas on a solution?

Thanks in advance,

(process:9881): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion `sys_page_size == 0' failed

      1. !!! ABORT: X_GLXDestroyPixmap: GLXBadPixmap; 7 requests ago: file /build/buildd/firefox-25.0+build3/toolkit/xre/nsX11ErrorHandler.cpp, line 157
      2. !!! ABORT: X_GLXDestroyPixmap: GLXBadPixmap; 7 requests ago: file /build/buildd/firefox-25.0+build3/toolkit/xre/nsX11ErrorHandler.cpp, line 157

Segmentation fault

As the title says, Firefox crashes immediately upon opening when using NVidia's latest stable drivers (331.20). The last stable driver that Firefox works with is 319.60. This issue only afflicts Firefox. All other HW accelerated programs I've tried work. Anybody have any ideas on a solution? Thanks in advance, (process:9881): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion `sys_page_size == 0' failed ###!!! ABORT: X_GLXDestroyPixmap: GLXBadPixmap; 7 requests ago: file /build/buildd/firefox-25.0+build3/toolkit/xre/nsX11ErrorHandler.cpp, line 157 ###!!! ABORT: X_GLXDestroyPixmap: GLXBadPixmap; 7 requests ago: file /build/buildd/firefox-25.0+build3/toolkit/xre/nsX11ErrorHandler.cpp, line 157 Segmentation fault

Chosen solution

There is a bug in the nVidia driver since R325.08 which affects GLX pixmaps. The simplest solution is to use drivers R319.xx (319.72 is the latest). Another solution is to recompile Firefox using the nvidia specific patch discussed here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=896287

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kobe
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We're sorry to hear that Firefox is crashing. In order to assist you better, please follow the steps below to provide us crash ID's to help us learn more about your crash.

  1. Enter about:crashes in the Firefox address bar and press Enter. A Submitted Crash Reports list will appear, similar to the one shown below.
  2. Copy the 5 most recent Report ID's that start with bp- and paste them into your response here.

SubmittedCrashReports-Win7

Thank you for your help!

More information and further troubleshooting steps can be found in the Troubleshoot Firefox crashes (closing or quitting unexpectedly) article.

Jamesc359
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There are no crash reports. This happens before Firefox's crash monitor can run.

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James
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Huh I guess even on Linux their newer drivers are causing problems. Not sure about Linux but the last version to work well for users on Windows was 314.22

mats_b_tegner
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Chosen Solution

There is a bug in the nVidia driver since R325.08 which affects GLX pixmaps. The simplest solution is to use drivers R319.xx (319.72 is the latest). Another solution is to recompile Firefox using the nvidia specific patch discussed here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=896287

Jamesc359
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Thank you for your replies everyone.

mats_b_tegner's reply sort of solved the issue. I'm going to try to patch and compile Firefox as the current NVidia drivers provide needed functionality. Hopefully the devs will see fit to include the patch in future releases.