"Snake" and many other webgl pages crash Firefox

[Ian Turner]

This URL crashes Firefox:
http://oos.moxiecode.com/js_webgl/snake/

I'm not sure how to get a stack trace, since this triggers the Mozilla Crash Reporter (which does not print the stack trace).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: firefox 7.0+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
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Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
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AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
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BuildID: 20110926064452
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
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Channel: release
Date: Tue Sep 27 23:58:09 2011
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SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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[Ian Turner (vectro)]

These pages seem to elicit the same crash:

http://alteredqualia.com/three/examples/webgl_materials_skin.html
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6983010/wserv/gexp_pulpo/index.html

[Erno Kuusela (erno-iki)]

Same here. 4 crashes out of 5 attempts at chromeexperiments.com/webgl (the simple marble one worked). Intel GM45 hardware.

[Omar Al Matar (bewinxed)]

Same, The page alliances.commandandconquer.com crashes as well when launching the game.

all of the aforementioned pages also cause the crash, i wonder what's wrong :/ Mine is a good ol' 855GME (not that good, i'd say xD)

[Omar Al Matar (bewinxed)]

By the way the same thing does NOT happen in Chrome

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Bug #1236340 is tracking updating Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" to mesa 9.1.7. Mesa 9.1.7 fixes the follwing upstream bug:

64330 - WebGL snake demo crash in loop_analysis.cpp:506: bool is_loop_terminator(ir_if*): assertion „inst != __null“ failed.

This fix is also in mesa 9.2, which is used in Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander".

[madbiologist (me-again)]

The "Snake" WebGL demo listed in this bug's description, and the two demos in comment #3 all run fine in Firefox 34 on Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" on an AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB.

Full support for your nVidia GF106 [GeForce GT 555M] [10de:0df4] (including firmware microcode) is included in Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" and later Ubuntu releases.