On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:47:47 +1100
Stephen Morris <samor...@netspace.net.au> wrote:

> > I *have* been having a weird issue with nightly for a few weeks,
> > where it doesn't start, but hangs when I start it.  I have found a
> > workaround, but not a cause.  I just invoke chromium, and as soon
> > as it appears, I close it.  Then the above command to start nightly
> > works again.  I assume there is some library that isn't being loaded
> > properly, and the initiation of chromium loads it, and then nightly
> > works too.  I am using LXDE, which the package maintainer says is no
> > longer being maintained properly, so that could be the issue.  I've
> > noticed that the menus have a different appearance recently, so some
> > system library change could be responsible.  
> I'm running Firefox nightly on KDE and I don't see this issue, and
> under linux I don't see the issue that I see in Firefox Nightly under
> windows, which is when there is an update to put on the startup of
> Firefox Nightly displays a white screen which gets closed, presumably
> because it has found there is an unapplied update, and then displays
> its normal interface.
> With the start issue you have, do you have the Gnome shell plugin 
> installed that provides direct install functionality from 
> Gnome-looks.org, etc? From what I can see the components that plugin 
> requires are tied to Google Chrome, and it worked fine in Chrome but
> I had issues with it in Firefox Nightly getting it to recognise that
> those components were actually installed from the repositories, and
> from what I've seen that process seems to have changed recently in
> that the component in the repositories seem to have been superseded.
> I seem to remember seeing an update saying that a package being
> installed was replacing the original package.
> I haven't noticed any changes to the menus in Firefox Nightly, but
> then I haven't really taken a lot of notice of those as I haven't
> turned on the option to permanently display them.

I'm not running Gnome (LXDE), but this makes a lot of sense.  It might
be that chromium recognizes those components and loads them, and then
when nightly runs it sees them too, and then uses them.

> >
> > Another possibility is that mesa recently removed support for vaapi
> > because of patent issues, and that you need the rpmfusion freeworld
> > version to re-enable it.  If you have rpmfusion enabled,
> > dnf swap mesa-va-drivers mesa-va-drivers-freeworld  
> I have rpmfusion enabled so I'll have a look at these and also look
> at the multimedia link that Greg has provided to see it that sheds
> any light on the issue. One issue might be that I used to have
> codec's installed that provided the necessary functionality but those
> codec are no longer installed, possibly because of re-installing F36
> from scratch when I did my hardware upgrade and moved away from raid
> so that I could run Linux natively instead of in a VM.

If it isn't confidential, you could provide a link, and I could check
whether it works here.  Another data point.
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