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  1. Bug #63570
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 63570

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Michał J. Gajda (mgajda) wrote : Re: Firefox 2.0b2 crashes when using composite and 16 bit visuals

It seems that the bug occurs if you have both composite and 16 bit depth enabled in the xorg.conf.

To fix this bug, you can hide composite visuals from Firefox by setting the environment variable read by xlib:

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 ; firefox

At least the fix works for me.