WetGeek That's another test I should run: I'll start over from scratch and see what happens if I go back to x11.
What happens is exactly the same thing that happens with Wayland, only a lot slower. And this time I was able to click on one of those images in the top panel and see what they say:
If anyone on the team is looking into this, I hope these experiments help. For now, I need to start over from a fresh shutdown, 'cause I have work to do that requires the browser.
WetGeek I have work to do that requires the browser.
Once again, I started all the applications except the browser in their workspaces, and hibernated. Upon wakeup, everything is working normally. I'm sure that if I hibernate again, a wakeup will once again work without error, and that's what I intend to do now for as long as I can. I.e., I'll hibernate this laptop every night, as usual, and see if I can keep it working without errors for the rest of the week.
Maybe the next sync will produce a pleasant surprise, and I won't need the work-around any more.
WetGeek sure Wayland, sorry
WetGeek Maybe the next sync will produce a pleasant surprise, and I won't need the work-around any more.
One last note on this: once again, I've proven that after the laptop has hibernated one time without a browser running, it behaves perfectly thereafter. So I'm going to continue as I proposed in a previous message. I'll just work all week as I'm accustomed to doing, and hibernate this laptop every night.
Whatever the root cause of this problem is, this process appears to fix it until after the next complete shutdown.
WetGeek the ghost artifacts are strange in that picture above--but they are all warnings of some kind? what would cause plasma-browser-integration to crash I wonder? the act of waking?
So in this murky relationship between hibernation and a running browser there's some kind of conflict. You know all this already. Bug for sure, but whose I wonder? In theory waking from hibernation produces the identical state before machine was shut down. You've been pulling your hair out with this one for a while.
Was there any news upstream about this, etc I wonder?
I'm all questions and no suggestions this morning.
edit: read a little bit. not uncommon. a browser only makes into a few threads about hibernation. I overlooked the fact you run VMs so I don't know if that's another factor with all the active parts of this?
Oh wow, those DPI scaling changes in WINE! So many DX1-7 era games are broken now. They are not really ready for DPI tricks.
brent the ghost artifacts are strange in that picture above--but they are all warnings of some kind?
Yes. I captured that warning in a subsequent post. And I've noticed that those warnings appear even when I haven't started any applications yet - just launched the system and started a terminal. So no browser in use yet.
If I keep going, and load up the workspaces with their typical applications, the warnings disappear.
We just did a little mini-sync to get a quick branding change in before spinning ISOs 
The branding change affects Budgie and XFCE. It changes the default archive manager from File Roller to Engrampa. We decided to do this because since File Roller was recently ported to GTK4/libadwaita, drag-and-drop no longer works with it and GTK3 applications; the drag-and-drop API changed between GTK 3 and 4 and are not compatible.
Included in this mini-sync is a bugfix update to libcairo.
i love ISO days
All good on my Gnome box 
thanks.
Qt5 libraries have been deprecated
How long till these are removed completely. I build apps at the moment for QT5 so if they go, I will have to try to manually install them.
EbonJaeger The branding change affects Budgie and XFCE. It changes the default archive manager from File Roller to Engrampa. We decided to do this because since File Roller was recently ported to GTK4/libadwaita, drag-and-drop no longer works with it and GTK3 applications; the drag-and-drop API changed between GTK 3 and 4 and are not compatible.
Engrampa is ok, not a good-looking extract window at all when I've tried it elsewhere, but its reliable. Sorry file-roller became unusable but se la vie. Forward progress is all good. Thanks for the heads up.
Harvey Is there a way to stop them being removed off my PC?
Harvey
is that hard to do? I really dont want to move away from Solus as for me it seems to work the best, but what I am working on /developing for is QT5. I need that to stay. I however do not require KF5.
mouse_AUS
You would have to judge that yourself: https://help.getsol.us/docs/packaging howeverqt5-base / qt5-base-devel is likely to remain for a while; So if that is all you need you need not worry yet but Qt5 is a dead end, it has no long term future anywhere.
It seems the "Email link to this button" in Firefox is suddenly broken. When I click it, I get a message box with the error:
"Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding. To use Thunderbird, you must first close the existing Thunderbird process, restart your device, or use a different profile."
Yes, Thunderbird is already running. On my machine, it's always running, and always has. That never was a problem before. Also, I can without problem enter xdg-open mailto:<some email address> in a shell and a mail window opens. I conclude therefore it has something to do with Firefox itself. I already searched the interwebs for this error with Firefox, with no luck. Maybe it's just on my machine. I'd appreciate it if someone could try that out on their machine and tell me how it went. Thx a lot.
mouse_AUS Which libraries do you need specifically? Most of the commonly used ones are likely to stick around for a year plus since there's likely to be a significant tail for applications adopting Qt6. The upstream EOL of Qt5 is May of next year so that's really the earliest that we could realistically remove it is then. Some of the less commonly used Qt5 libraries will probably be removed before that point once their revdeps are all updated to Qt6.
Harvey Slight correction, we never attempted the usr-merge for /lib* so if there's a symlink for those it does mean that the usr-merge script ran.
