WesselKroos
commented
6 days ago That's an annoying bug. Especially because it happens randomly. Since a refresh does not work, I think you have found a bug in the browser or the graphics driver.
Some things you could try when it happens:
- Open a new browser tab with the same url and close the old glitching tab. Every tab has it's own cpu process, so this could work if the bug is bound to that browser tab's cpu process. And this way you don't have to restart the whole browser. (If it did not work you could also try the same with the browser windows. Open a new tab, move it to a new browser window, close the browser window with the old glitching tab)
- You could check if toggling the "Artifacts workaround" setting under the "Video" category fixes or changes the glitch.
- You could check if turning off the "WebGL renderer" setting under the "Quality" category fixes or changes the glitch. However, turning it off comes with a performance penalty, but it might be a viable workaround until this bug has been fixed in a new Firefox version or Graphics driver version.
What CPU and GPU do you have? In case you might need to report this bug to the Firefox developers to get it fixed.
This bug does seem similar to another glitch which was fixed in Firefox 132. But that bug happend directly instead of randomly. So it might be related to what they fixed for that bug. #265 If it is related you should see the same flicking randomly happen in 3D/180/360 YouTube videos with ambient light turned off. Then we should definitely report it to Firefox and probably in the same bugreport they thought they had fixed.
joni999
Bug description
Ambient Light sporadically starts flickering
Steps to reproduce the behavior
unfortunately I can't reliably reproduce the issue. It just happens from time to time (but usually takes at least 15 Minutes of watching varying videos to appear. I last got it on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkHU2yXp36Y
Browser
Firefox
Operating system
Linux
Extension version
2.38.10
The bug still happens in these conditions
Additional context and/or screenshots
This is what the flickering looks like :
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/42ace75e-2df0-466f-af06-992f20d38cfd
Even Page refresh via F5 doesn't fix it.
I'm using two 3440x1440 Ultra wide monitors. I'm using Linux - CachyOS distribution with latest updates.
PS: Thank you for making this add-on - it looks great and prevents "burn in" on my OLED.