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  1. Bug #1870161
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1870161

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Ary Moonc (arymoonc) wrote : Re: Tabs in Firefox 74.0 crash on some websites: [GFX1-]: DrawTargetCairo::Snapshot with bad surface

I have reviewed my "about:support" contents and found preference "gfx.canvas.azure.backends" modified to "cairo" (from default "skia").
Toggling this entry between those two values (and restarting the browser) seems to fix/reproduce the issue 100% of the time.

I also had "gfx.content.azure.backends" set alike, but changing this does not seem to have any negative effect.

So with both set to "skia" the issue seems solved for me.