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firefox package

  1. Bug #232197
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 232197

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kiomava (kioma-kioma) wrote :

At least in my case this seems to be an nvidia bug. I found in the nvidia forums:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=114858

I tried their suggested temporary fix:

nvidia-settings -a InitialPixmapPlacement=0 -a GlyphCache=1

They say this will be fixed in a future driver release. I tried the nvidia-supplied 177.13 beta driver and the fix wasn't there.

Their fix helped a lot. Firefox doesn't freeze anymore. Unfortunately, those nvidia-settings options seem to make compiz segfault, but I can live with that.