On Mon, 2017-04-10 at 13:43 -0700, stan wrote:
On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 11:41:01 -0700
Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh(a)pacbell.net> wrote:
> I've go so many messages like this from the most recent firefox that
> it is unusable. I have tried removing all extensions, etc. and
> disabling hardware acceleration, but without any improvement.
> Therefor I downgraded to firefox-49.0-2.fc25, which seems to be
> working OK. The problem appears to be known but not widespread (see
>
e.g.https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Firefox/Gah-Your-tab-just-crashed/td-p...)
> and no cure seems to be available on the web.
>
> Has anyone on the list seen it?
>
>
> The system (before the downgrade) was
> Fedora-25 with all upgrades installed
> Firefox-52.0.2-2.fc25
I'm not seeing this. I've had dozens of tabs open with no problem, and
using both the above firefox version, or the latest nightly compiled
locally.
Interesting. Are you running the Gnome or KDE desktop manager (or something
else)? I'm running KDE. My own configuration is
4-core true Intel processor
8 Gb RAM
Fedora-25 up to date
KDE-5.8.6
Firefox-52.0.2-2.fc25
Firefox has problems with the system and with KDE's Plasma desktop. If I open
too many tabs in Firefox, more than about 20, Firefox becomes extremely slow.
Frequently when I quit Firefox plasma-workspace crashes. Also it appears that
the X-Server has been crashing, though it's difficult to tell exactly what has
happened because without the X-Server the system is not accessible, so it could
be any kind of system crash; it appears from the lights and log that some system
activity continues, so I suspect the X-Server.
Did you try creating a new user, logging into X as that user, and
starting firefox 52 as that pristine user? Could this be a wayland
problem? If so, have you tried reverting to X?
I have not. Right now I'm too lazy to put in the time (days) to compare
stability of jonrysh (me) against phred (fictitious user).
The link you gave has another link where the moderator asks for
crash
IDs that were submitted to mozilla for this problem. I think they were
in about:crashes. Perhaps you could give a few to help them pinpoint
the problem.
My Firefox crashes are automatically sent to Firefox development. The link
advises users of the bulletin board to also post their crashes there.