Firefox version 110 not working

[mtomatis]

OpenMandriva version: Rome 23.01

Describe the bug: After a regular update from shell, Firefox version 110 won't connect and work properly. I had to uninstall it and revert to the version 108.

Steps to reproduce:

Observed behavior: Firefox version 110 behaves like it was offline. It won't respond to any URL.

Expected behavior:

Additional comment:

Logs and screenshots if relevant

[tpgxyz]

@mtomatis what happens if you run Firefox in konsole? Please share the output.

[mtomatis]

Here are the errors from running Firefox 110 in konsole:

Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: glxtest: VA-API test failed: failed to initialise VAAPI connection. (t=0.202839) [GFX1-]: glxtest: VA-API test failed: failed to initialise VAAPI connection.
ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.
ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.
ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.
console.error: ({})
console.warn: TopSitesFeed: Failed to fetch data from Contile server: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.
console.error: Region.sys.mjs: "Error fetching region" (new TypeError("NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.", ""))
console.error: Region.sys.mjs: "Failed to fetch region" (new Error("NO_RESULT", "resource://gre/modules/Region.sys.mjs", 416))
console.error: (new TypeError("NetworkError: Network request failed", "resource://services-settings/Utils.jsm", 237))
[2023-02-25T23:39:09Z ERROR glean_core::metrics::ping] Invalid reason code startup for ping newtab
console.error: (new TypeError("NetworkError: Network request failed", "resource://services-settings/Utils.jsm", 237))
console.error: (new TypeError("NetworkError: Network request failed", "resource://services-settings/Utils.jsm", 237))
console.error: (new TypeError("NetworkError: Network request failed", "resource://services-settings/Utils.jsm", 237))
console.error: (new TypeError("NetworkError: Network request failed", "resource://services-settings/Utils.jsm", 237))
console.error: (new TypeError("NetworkError: Network request failed", "resource://services-settings/Utils.jsm", 237))
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/XULStore.jsm, line 58: Error: Can't find profile directory.

After stopping Firefox with ctrl-c:

Exiting due to channel error.
Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[C0][GFX1-]: Receive IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=85.53) Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[C0][GFX1-]: Receive IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=85.5446) Exiting due to channel error.
Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[C0][GFX1-]: Receive IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=85.5388) Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[C0][GFX1-]: Receive IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=86.2988) Exiting due to channel error.
Exiting due to channel error.
Exiting due to channel error.

[benbullard79]

Post edited to correct incorrect dnf commands.

Most of you have noticed that when you upgrade Firefox you may also see upgrades for nss and nss-shlibsign. For FF 110 you need:

lib64nss3-3.88.1-1
nss-shlibsign-3.88.1-1
nss-3.88.1-1

It looks like there was some glitch in publishing for these. They are shown as published in ABF but I do not seem them in rolling/main/release repo. So I am republishing these.

In the main time try:

$ sudo dnf up --refresh firefox nss nss-shlibsign

or:

$ sudo dnf clean all ; sudo dnf dsync

I do not know if absolutely every FF upgrade comes with also nss upgrade but it sure seems like it to me.

[omakuta]

This issue has been mentioned on OpenMandriva forum. There might be relevant details there:

https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/aggiornamento-firefox-difettoso/4830/8

[mtomatis]

I confirm the issue was due to nss. Doing what Ben suggested (sudo dnf up --refresh firefox nss nss-shlibsign) could fix the Firefox 110 issue.