Firefox with CUDA missing from NixOS binary cache
Firefox with CUDA support is missing from the binary cache, so rebuilds run out of memory and crash after a channel advance.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 3 October 2026 · last reported 3 October 2026
What's going wrong
On NixOS, users who enable CUDA support report that Firefox and Thunderbird are not available from the binary cache, so the system build starts compiling them locally.
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