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LMDE 4 Firefox 78.11.0esr (64-bit) Transparent

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So I had updated Firefox to 78.11.0esr (64-bit) per Update Manager. Several times now while using Firefox it completely goses invisible/transparent. The only part that doesn't is a small portion of the top bar and a black line down each side. Seems to happen after watching a video and etc. Not the first time I have heard of this yet not sure how to fix this issue.

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System:
  Host: acr-linux Kernel: 4.19.0-16-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
  v: 8.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 wm: muffin 4.8.1 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
  Distro: LMDE 4 Debbie base: Debian 10.2 buster 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: B450 TOMAHAWK (MS-7C02) v: 1.0 
  serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1.E0 date: 06/09/2020 
CPU:
  Topology: 6-Core model: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 
  rev: 1 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 76792 
  Speed: 1353 MHz min/max: 1550/3200 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 1378 2: 1378 3: 1408 4: 1379 5: 1454 6: 1394 7: 1474 8: 1393 9: 1377 
  10: 1377 11: 1390 12: 1385 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480] vendor: XFX Pine 
  driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 26:00.0 chip ID: 1002:67df 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: amdgpu,ati 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 2560x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.27.0 
  4.19.0-16-amd64 LLVM 7.0.1) 
  v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590] 
  vendor: XFX Pine driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 26:00.1 
  chip ID: 1002:aaf0 
  Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 28:00.3 chip ID: 1022:1457 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-16-amd64 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 22:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8168 
  IF: enp34s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 4.20 TiB used: 1.82 TiB (43.4%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST4000VN008-2DR166 size: 3.64 TiB 
  speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5980 rpm serial: <filter> rev: SC60 scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Crucial model: CT120BX500SSD1 size: 111.79 GiB 
  speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: R013 scheme: GPT 
  ID-3: /dev/sdd vendor: SanDisk model: SDSSDA120G size: 111.79 GiB 
  speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 10RL scheme: GPT 
  ID-4: /dev/sde model: SPCC Solid State Disk size: 119.24 GiB 
  speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 61.2 scheme: GPT 
  ID-5: /dev/sdf vendor: SanDisk model: SDSSDH3 250G size: 232.89 GiB 
  speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 20RL scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 36.16 GiB used: 12.83 GiB (35.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdf2 
  ID-2: /home size: 69.17 GiB used: 24.29 GiB (35.1%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/sdf3 
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 3.72 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdf4 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 35.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 46 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 775 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/linuxmint-packages debbie main upstream import backport
  2: deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
  3: deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
  4: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
  5: deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-backports main contrib non-free
Info:
  Processes: 314 Uptime: 4h 35m Memory: 15.68 GiB used: 4.92 GiB (31.4%) 
  Init: systemd v: 241 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 7/8 
  clang: 7.0.1-8+deb10u2 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 running in: gnome-terminal 
  inxi: 3.0.32
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Re: LMDE 4 Firefox 78.11.0esr (64-bit) Transparent

Post by karlchen »

Hi, JeffF73.

I suspect two alternatives:
You may have to switch off hardware acceleration in Firefox ESR 78.11.0. Maybe it makes use of it more aggressively than FF ESR 78.10.2 did.
You may have to upgrade the ancient kernel 4.19.0-16 to kernel 5.8.0-xx or 5.10.0-xx, which ever of the two is available for Debian 10.
Kernel 4.19.0-16 is good enough for my 10 year old machines, but it very likely is not the optimal kernel for Ryzen 5 CPU's.
(We frequently tell Ryzen owners using LM 20.x to upgrade from kernel 5.4.0-xx to 5.8.0-xx, and it frequently resolves their problems. So I would not be amazed if in a similar way a newer kernel than 4.19.0-16 would be beneficial on LMDE as well.)

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Karl
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Re: LMDE 4 Firefox 78.11.0esr (64-bit) Transparent

Post by JeffF73 »

karlchen wrote: Wed Jun 09, 2021 5:15 am
Thank you.
I notice in preferences that I did uncheck "Use recommended performance settings" yet I forgot to uncheck "Use hardware acceleration when available"
I have it now unchecked and will test it and see if that changes anything.
Kernel 4:19 is default for LMDE/Debian from installation so I left it due to not having any issues. Until now. I may have to go and do that. If it isn't broke don't fix it? Still in the learning stages on the differences between LM and LMDE. There are many things in Debian that differ from LM. limited compared to. Even restricted of using PPA's lol.
Thank you again for your feedback. I will definately be testing this and going forward.
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