Browsers Not Respoding

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Hello,

I’m using Fedora 43 with the following setup:

  • GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1060 (proprietary driver installed, working – nvidia-smi OK)
  • CPU: Ryzen 7 7700X (with AMD iGPU)
  • Session: Wayland (default GNOME)

Problem:
Browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Brave Browser frequently freeze and show “Not Responding”.

What I found so far:

  • If I disable Hardware Acceleration → browsers become stable, but performance drops
  • journalctl shows repeated errors from amdgpu:
    Failed to create link encoder
  • It seems like conflict between AMD iGPU and NVIDIA on Wayland

What I tried:

  • Installed NVIDIA drivers (akmod-nvidia) → working
  • Tried forcing X11 (WaylandEnable=false) → resulted in no GUI (only TTY)
  • Tried MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 → partial improvement

Question:
What is the best way to run browsers with hardware acceleration ON without freezes?
Should I:

  • disable AMD iGPU completely?
  • switch to X11 (and how properly on Fedora 43)?
  • or is there a better Wayland + NVIDIA configuration?

Any help would be appreciated :folded_hands:

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Probably a good idea to either rule it out or rule it in scope for the root cause.

I’d say this was not a great idea. X11 is vanishing and won’t be coming back. If you really want to hang on to it, switch to a desktop which still fully supports it. There are some spins which still roll out of the door with X11 as the default..

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I’m done, I’ve tried everything, but it’s no use, I’d better find another distro

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That won’t work on f43 with either Workstation or KDE editions. Both have totally dropped support for X11.

As suggested above there are some fedora spins that still support X11.

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I installed KDE, and it works fine but this is also:gukakhachidze@fedora:~$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE~
wayland~
gukakhachidze@. How i can fix it on gnome

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gnome use wayland too actually longest time from fedora 15 To make work hardware acceleration follow Hardware Video Acceleration - Fedora Project Wiki before install free and non-free repos from rpmfusion Making sure you're not a bot!

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You can try to lauch it using switcherooctl launch firefox

Also, are you running firefox from the repo or flatpak?

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flatpak

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Thanks for the tip! I have a GTX 1060 6GB. Will this actually work for me? I’ve heard that since the 1060 is based on the older Pascal architecture, it has syncing issues with GNOME on Wayland. I was told that enabling hardware video acceleration on this specific card usually causes browsers to freeze and show ‘Not Responding’ errors