[SOLVED] Firefox 31. Eydropper not working.

Jefferson · 07-27-2014, 05:52 AM

Hi. I'm using Slackware current, 32-bit. And i noticed that new feature in firefox 31 - eyedropper, isn't working. 'not working' means that no magnifying lense appears and if it will, it's image will be crippled like on this screenshot i made.
I wanted to know, am i the only one experiencing this? Is it a bug, or something else?

;; i use proprietary nvidia driver, if it matters.

ponce · 07-27-2014, 06:15 AM

what I can say is that:
- it doesn't work with the binaries of 31.0 from mozilla too;
- it still does the same with self-built mozilla-firefox-32.0b1;
on the host I tested I'm running the latest nvidia-drivers too...

genss · 07-27-2014, 06:21 AM

maybe the opengl thingy

can't test now, try in about:config layers.acceleration.disabled to true

chrisretusn · 07-27-2014, 07:11 AM

I'm using Slackware64-current, no special video drivers, the new Developer Tool, Eyedropper works. Just tested it.

Jefferson · 07-27-2014, 07:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ponce

what I can say is that:
- it doesn't work with the binaries of 31.0 from mozilla too;
- it still does the same with self-built mozilla-firefox-32.0b1;
on the host I tested I'm running the latest nvidia-drivers too...

Same result with firefox-nightly.

Quote:

Originally Posted by genss

maybe the opengl thingy

can't test now, try in about:config layers.acceleration.disabled to true

No effect.

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrisretusn

I'm using Slackware64-current, no special video drivers, the new Developer Tool, Eyedropper works. Just tested it.

Hmm. Interesting.

Also, after latest Xorg update, i noticed that every time i shut down X session, in tty i see:

Quote:

(EE) "Server terminated sucessfully (0). Closing file"
(EE)
(EE) Backtrace:
(EE) 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x4f) [0x81de02f]
(EE) 1: /usr/bin/X (0x8048000+0x199a84) [0x81e1a84]
(EE) 2: linux-gate.so.1 (__kernel_rt_sigreturn+0x0) [0xffffe40c]
(EE) 3: /lib/libc.so.6 (malloc_usable_size+0x38) [0xb7113308]
(EE) 4: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 (0xb7606000+0x8cfbd) [0xb7692fbd]
(EE)
(EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x6e43c94c
(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting.
(EE)
(EE)

There is no mention of any segfault in Xorg.N.log files though. The only error xorg log mentions is:

Quote:

(EE) Failed to load module "glamoregl" (module does not exist, 0)

brianL · 07-27-2014, 07:43 AM

Works on 14.1, Firefox 31.0 (obtained using ruario's latest-firefox script). Was going to post a screenshot as proof, but I'm over the limit for attachments.

schmatzler · 07-27-2014, 09:21 AM

Doesn't work here, too.

I'm on the latest Mesa drivers trunk (4 days old) and have a Radeon HD 6800 - should be more than suitable to render this little thing.

But it doesn't, the cursor vanishes and I'm moving around in the blind when I activate it. Mozilla quality, as usual.

genss · 07-27-2014, 10:13 AM

tried, no magnifier at all (not even artifacting)
nvidia binary

BrZ · 07-27-2014, 11:06 AM

Here it works: open radeon, firefox 31 built with unchanged script (I patch png with apng support), Slackware64-current.

https://imgur.com/S7CVSnI

John VV · 07-27-2014, 12:52 PM

it works here
using the 64 bit build tarbal auto updated to 31
Opensuse 13.1 and the current nvidia.run driver
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla....-x86_64/en-US/

Nh3xus · 08-03-2014, 07:22 AM

Small bump just to make you aware that the method to force hw acceleration has changed in upstream versions of Firefox.

I've done a small how-to on LQ :

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ix-4175501483/

Works with the Nvidia blob.

Of course, YMMV.