firefox - brittle?

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tingo

Is it just me, or is the current (well, for "quarterly" values of current) version of firefox exceptionally brittle? For me, it crashes for nothing - click too quickly on a window, quick to many times (because gthe respones is slow sometimes) and it quits. No error messages, just quits
This is
Code: 
root@kg-core2:~ # pkg info firefox\*
firefox-156.0,2
running on
Code: 
root@kg-core2:~ # freebsd-version -ku
14.4-RELEASE-p9
14.4-RELEASE-p9
root@kg-core2:~ # uname -a
FreeBSD kg-core2.kg4.no 14.4-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE-p9 releng/14.4-n273766-53c5c1935320 GENERIC amd64
 
I'm on 14.5 and on firefox 155, and zero problems. It works like clockwork. Maybe there's something with 156, but I doubt it. You can run firefox from the terminal - that should output messages, including possibly any errors. Og hvordan gar det i Norge?
 
JS processing is a disaster lately...
It needs a total source cleanup but that would actually open it so not going to happen.
 
Haven't noticed FF crashing here, on 14.5. I don't use it for much though, maybe I've been lucky. Waterfox seems pretty stable, but sometimes it goes into a tight loop and chews up 100% cpu and I have to kill the process, I think that is a longstanding bug though.
 
Have you tested with a blank profile (without failure) I don't have any problems with Firefox But sometimes overly pushing settings in about:config can cause unexpected effects
 
I am on 15.1 p2 on sway and wayland and I am having similar issues. Crashes on start and sometimes when replying to. The packages have been built with poudreire. I thought it was just my setup.
Code: 
pkg info | grep evolution
evolution-3.56.2_3             Integrated mail, calendar and address book distributed suite
evolution-data-server-3.56.2_4 Centralized access to appointments and contacts
 
Here is another things that happens from time to time: the whole gui (I run Xfce on Xorg) freezes, no response to either mouse clicks (I can still move the mouse, and the pointer moves) or key presses. If I kill firefox (from another machine ssh in, then pkill -HUP firefox) the gui is responsive again.
 
tingo said:
Here is another things that happens from time to time: the whole gui (I run Xfce on Xorg) freezes, no response to either mouse clicks (I can still move the mouse, and the pointer moves) or key presses. If I kill firefox (from another machine ssh in, then pkill -HUP firefox) the gui is responsive again.
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That sounds like the cpu hog bug I've noticed. FF goes into a tight loop and burns 100% cpu. Killing the FF/WF process regains control. I believe that is a longstanding FF bug, I've noticed that happening occasionally for perhaps the last 3 years. It happens running FF/WF on linux too.

According to this it's possibly related to GPU accel, they suggest disablling it but it you do that video playback will be poor. https://erropedia.com/solution.php?...e-after-visiting-specific-sites-heres-the-fix
Google search results in lots of hits about similar high cpu bugs in FF.

I don't think this is a freebsd issue, it definitely happens on linux too, the bug is in FF.
 
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