[ale] Firefox crashes

[Lightner, Jeff]

I've been having issues with Firefox 44.x on Windows 7 for the past few weeks but I'm not sure if it is just FF as it seems I can't do anything when it hangs but I'm always in the browser at the moment I encounter the hang.   I updated to the latest 45.x this morning.   There was some recent security alert for this on RHEL but I seldom use it on RHEL.


-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Stephen R. Blevins
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 11:27 AM
To: jimkinney at gmail.com; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Firefox crashes

I've had problems for over a year.  Running Mint 17.[12&3].  Thanks for the point of JavaScript, but the instability shows up for me in LibreOffice, too.

Symptoms:
1) Sometimes kills Firefox only.
2) Sometimes kills user session (I'm running multiple logins simultaneously)
3)  Most often, screen freezes and I have to reboot.  Instability with LibreOffice is always of this kind.

Thought it might be my video card on this IBM ThinkCentre system.  Tried to replace the hardware but replacement HP system had issues of its own and I had to revert to IBM.

Am open to suggestions.

Stephen R. Blevins
stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com

On 04/28/2016 07:35 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Over the past two months firefox has become rather unstable for me. It 
> will freeze when scrolling down a page and then abruptly close. A 
> restore of the same pages results in a near immediate crash.
> 
> I've removed all the add ons except for my vpn with no improvement. 
> I've removed and reinstalled, updated to latest version. Still crashes 
> multiple time a day.
> 
> I also run firefox on my phone and it's been locking up there as well.
> The crashes have required a forced phone reboot.
> 
> Icecat seems to be unaffected even though it's basically the same code.
> Seamonkey is also similar core and is unaffected. Seamonkey doesn't 
> display certain work stuff in a usable manner so I can't use it. 
> Icecat has issues with some other work stuff. Chromium works ok and 
> has been pulled into service.
> 
> Anyone else having firefox stability issues?
> 
> 
> 
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