Environment: Firefox-esr, v115.3.1esr-1~deb11u1
I didn’t see a topic here but Firefox crashes on launch after latest two updates. Has anybody any issues with it?
I switched to Gnome Web Flatpak version and it is actually surprisingly stable, doesn’t crash any longer, while still slow in rendering.
What I tried:
‘sudo apt reinstall firefox-esr’
‘sudo apt purge firefox-esr’
‘sudo apt install firefox-esr’
‘sudo apt reinstall firefox-esr-m*’
to reinstall mobile configuration.
Neither worked.
Works for me. I’ve done 0 cusomization to firefos and barely use it, but it doesn’t crash when I do use it.
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could you confirm:
‘sudo apt info firefox-esr’
that you are using exactly the same version?
Package: firefox-esr
Version: 115.3.1esr-1~deb11u1
This is what I get, and FF is working fine for me.
If you launch firefox
from the terminal, is there any useful output?
Nothing too useful.
[GFX1-]: glxtest: DRM render node not clearly detectable. Falling back to using the only one that was found.
[GFX1-]: vaapitest: ERROR
[GFX1-]: vaapitest: VA-API test failed: failed to initialise VAAPI connection.
[GFX1-]: Handling webrender error 3
Emma
October 4, 2023, 3:37am
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I haven’t experienced this, but it could be a problem relating to your default Firefox profile.
You could try launching a different Firefox profile using the terminal:
firefox --profile ~/.mozilla/firefox/profile.default-esr
(change profile.default-esr
to one of your non-default profiles)
Or you could move everything from the firefox
folder to a safe location somewhere else and then try to launch Firefox:
mkdir -p ~/ff/ && mv ~/.mozilla/firefox/* ~/ff/ && firefox
While I haven’t experienced your issue, I have experienced a different bug that I mentioned in this comment on another post:
After using Firefox for a little while (I don’t know if this has to do with time spent or number of tabs opened/closed), single-taps no longer work in certain parts of the browser. For instance, if I use the Tab Manager to switch or close tabs, I will eventually need to double-tap in order for the button to be clicked. When this happens, Firefox registers a click on the button I’m tapping as well as whatever is behind the button. I’m guessing this is a touchscreen related Firefox bug.
I really hope that the Firefox developers can fix these bugs soon.
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Thank you that did the trick, moving or deleting the current profiles. Now with the newly created profile Firefox launches again!
Only downside i have to redo all my settings again, install extensions, and make tweaks…
But that is better than having no browser at all.
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