Firefox freeze apparently due to mesa 10.3.1

Hi!
I searched for recent posts about my bug but the closest I got was this one: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=188484
I first tried to remove all my extensions, which didn't work and then I tried downgrading to Firefox 32 (as said in the other thread), but didn't work either.
That being said, I tried to downgrade from mesa 10.3.1 to 10.3.0 and now Firefox seems to work far better now, so if you get some sort of weird freeze (no light gray window, everything about image/video is frozen, but the sound, from flash, still works). I have an AMD/ATI Radeon HD 6870 with the open source drivers.
Here's the line to downgrade:
pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/mesa-10.3.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
I hope this will be useful to someone too

rudametw wrote:
I've had issues with Firefox freezing on suspend or when activating and deactivating my external monitor (intel driver using sna and intel-video-output) for about two days now.
Apparently it's an evince bug, the fix is simple:
rm /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libevbrowserplugin.so
I found the solution here:
https://bbs.archlinux.de/viewtopic.php?pid=330183
And here's the bug report:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42422
Hope it helps someone else.
Thanks for the pointer. Saw the glib errors in the log but they were very random in conjunction with Firefox actually crashing. So far so good. Must have been a change in Gnome 3.14 (evince) causing this, can't remember if there was an evince Firefox plug-in with Gnome 3.12.

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