This morning I saw that there was a update to the gnome-42-2204 snap
(rev. 141) available, so I refreshed it and then tried to play a video
in firefox 118.0.1-1 again. Happily, firefox played videos with the
hardware acceleration option enabled and did not crash. I've yet to try
it whiled logged into a wayland session and will do that later today and
will report if I receive any errors

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Title:
  firefox snap crashes when playing video REGRESSION

Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Newest snap version of Firefox instantly crashes when attempting to
  play a video with the setting, "Use hardware acceleration when
  available" is enabled. Disabling the hardware acceleration setting
  allows videos to play albeit with occasional stuttering and high CPU
  utilization.

  Older version of snap Firefox with identical settings and hardware
  acceleration enabled played videos well.

  System:
    Host: neons Kernel: 6.2.0-33-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
    Desktop: GNOME v: 42.9 Distro: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
  CPU:
    Info: dual core AMD Athlon II X2 245 [MCP] arch: K10 speed (MHz): avg: 800
      min/max: 800/2900
  Graphics:
    Device-1: AMD Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] vendor: VISIONTEK
      driver: radeon v: kernel arch: TeraScale-2 bus-ID: 01:00.0 temp: 60.0 C
    Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.1 driver: X:
      loaded: radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: r600 gpu: radeon
      resolution: 1600x900~60Hz
    API: OpenGL v: 4.5 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1 renderer: AMD CEDAR (DRM
      2.50.0 / 6.2.0-33-generic LLVM 15.0.7) direct-render: Yes

  $ snap list firefox --all
  Name     Version    Rev   Tracking       Publisher  Notes
  firefox  118.0.1-1  3206  latest/stable  mozilla✓   -
  firefox  116.0.3-2  3026  latest/stable  mozilla✓   disabled

  When started from the command-line, the 118.0.1-1 version spams the
  following output when playing a video before crashing:

  EE ../src/gallium/drivers/r600/r600_shader.c:193 r600_pipe_shader_create - 
translation from TGSI failed !
  EE ../src/gallium/drivers/r600/r600_state_common.c:961 r600_shader_select - 
Failed to build shader variant (type=1) -1

  This goes on for several lines until it gets here:

  libva info: VA-API version 1.19.0
  libva info: Trying to open 
/snap/firefox/3206/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r600_drv_video.so

  Then it spams a few more shader lines and then gets here:

  libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
  ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.
  out of memory: 0x0000000773594008 bytes requested
  ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 8049
  ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child
  ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal...
  Exiting due to channel error.
  Exiting due to channel error.
  Exiting due to channel error.

  At which point the Firefox window disappears and the Firefox crash
  handler pop up.

  Terminal output from 116.0.3-2 when playing same video

  [Parent 8438, Main Thread] WARNING: OnCloseSessionDone error: Timeout
  was reached: 'glib warning', file
  /build/firefox/parts/firefox/build/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp:167

  ** (firefox:8438): WARNING **: 16:29:24.338: OnCloseSessionDone error: 
Timeout was reached
  libva info: VA-API version 1.7.0
  libva info: Trying to open 
/snap/firefox/3026/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/r600_drv_video.so
  libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_7
  ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.
  libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
  ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.

  The same latest release of Firefox downloaded directly from
  mozilla.org does not have this problem and works as expected with no
  issues.

  Chromium snap is also installed and up-to-date, but does not crash
  with hardware acceleration enabled and plays videos as expected.

  Expectations:
  1. New version of Firefox snap should have at least the same performance 
profile as an older version, or the same version of the non-snap release
  2. Even if a hardware acceleration setting is not attainable because of the 
limitation of said hardware, the program should gracefully downgrade to 
software rendering and not crash.

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