On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 07:07:38PM -0600, Gary Mills wrote:
> Whenever I tell Firefox to show me www.royalbank.com, and click on the
> Sign In box, it tells me that my tab just crashed. This behavior just
> started happening today. It happens before I get an opportunity to
> authenticate. I get the same thing on a newly-upgraded BE as I do
> from one that's about a year old. The curious thing is that Firefox
> on Linux works perfectly with this same URL. That's the only way I
> can access my bank now.
Thanks to private e-mail from Geoff Weiss, I learned a few things and
found the solution. The underlying cause is a Firefox bug that only
shows up on systems that use VESA graphics. All of my OI systems use
VESA graphics because OI does not have a kernel driver for Radeon
video cards. Firefox is testing for Webgl graphics, and doing it
badly.
The solution for VESA graphics is:
go to about:config
set webgl.disabled to true
Both recent versions of Firefox on OI, that I tested, seem to have
the bug. Newer versions of Firefox will be better.
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-Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-
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