It seems converting the whole SVG from "Object to Path" fixed the issue everywhere.
If I remove the "writing-mode:tb-rl" firefox renders it properly. It seems FF does not support that attribute.
I have kept both versions of the SVG and intended to fill a bug report.
http://fabiensanglard.net/cuda/g71.svg http://fabiensanglard.net/cuda/g71_org.svg
I have this weird guts feeling it will be closed as "we know. we don't support it yet. Come back later". So I abandoned the idea.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/P...
But the detailed documentation it links to does not:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/w...
I had a look in Bugzilla and couldn't find anything specific to tb-rl, but did find an ancient meta bug for writing-mode which links to millions of other bugs: