1928167 - Flickers and glitches on Linux and NVIDIA

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1924578

(Core :: Graphics, defect, P2)

Description

[Ali Akbar]

Attachment: Screencast from binance.com

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:132.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/132.0

Steps to reproduce:

Setup info:
OS: Ubuntu 24.04.1
GPU: NVIDIA 1030 on Xorg
Drivers: v550.120
Firefox 132

1. Visit tradingview.com or binance.com
2. Have the tab open for a while
3. Interact with charts on the page

Actual results:

Flickers show up on the charts

Expected results:

Charts should display correctly during interactions

Comment 1

[Ali Akbar]

Attachment: Screencast from tradingview.com

Comment 2

[Ali Akbar]

I have also tried a new profile without any settings change and addons installed and the issue persists. I also don't remember this issue on 12x.x releases, this seems like a regression.

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Graphics' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 4

[Brad Werth [:bradwerth]]

This isn't exactly the URL used in the binance repro case, but it's a similar one that works in the USA: https://www.binance.us/spot-trade/ethusdt.

We'll find someone who can reproduce.

Comment 5

[Ali Akbar]

Attachment: Screencast from binance.us (on a newly loaded tab)

Comment 6

[Ali Akbar]

Attachment: Screencast from binance.us (running after a while in the background)

Comment 7

[Ali Akbar]

(In reply to Brad Werth [:bradwerth] from comment #4)

This isn't exactly the URL used in the binance repro case, but it's a similar one that works in the USA: https://www.binance.us/spot-trade/ethusdt.

We'll find someone who can reproduce.

I was able to reproduce it with the url provided, the odd thing is the issue only exhibits if the window/tab is left open for a while and then even tab reloads won't fix it only closing the window and re-opening a new one remedies the effect and the cycle repeats!

Comment 8

[Ali Akbar]

I narrowed down the offending release to 128, previous releases did not exhibit this issue. I'm trying to mozregression right now, to see if I can narrow it down further.

Comment 9

[Bob Hood [:bhood]]

Ali, can you please set the widget.dmabuf.enabled pref in about:config to false and see if that causes the behavior to go away?

Comment 10

[Ali Akbar]

(In reply to Bob Hood [:bhood] from comment #9)

Ali, can you please set the widget.dmabuf.enabled pref in about:config to false and see if that causes the behavior to go away?

Setting widget.dmabuf.enabled to false indeed resolved the issue, another fix I found was installing the nvidia-vaapi-driver and setting the widget.dmabuf.force-enabled to true.

Comment 11

[Ali Akbar]

(In reply to Ali Akbar from comment #10)

(In reply to Bob Hood [:bhood] from comment #9)

Ali, can you please set the widget.dmabuf.enabled pref in about:config to false and see if that causes the behavior to go away?

Setting widget.dmabuf.enabled to false indeed resolved the issue, another fix I found was installing the nvidia-vaapi-driver and setting the widget.dmabuf.force-enabled to true.

Correction: Having the widget.dmabuf.force-enabled set to true with the vaapi-driver makes the flickers a lot less but does not completely fix the issue as the first solution did.