[OpenIndiana-discuss] warning: new thunberbird crashes nvidia and nvidia-470 (works with nvidia-390)

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 10/3/23 23:19, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
> After updating thunderbird to the latest version 115.3.1 I have
> experienced instant crashes using either nvidia(-535) or nvidia-470 drivers.
> Going back to -390 makes thunderbird usable again. Thus, the problem
> seems to be located at the newer NVIDIA drivers.

When our nvidia expert looked into it, he found the 115.x version of Firefox
& Thunderbird were mixing OpenGL & EGL calls in a way that works with Mesa
but not the Nvidia drivers, and applied a workaround to stop it from using
EGL for now to avoid that:

https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/desktop/firefox/patches/firefox-115-glx-only.patch

	-alan-