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Keep using Firefox! Encourage everyone you know (without being too obnoxious of course) to switch. Help them switch if they’re receptive to the idea. Support th

Keep using Firefox! Encourage everyone you know (without being too obnoxious of course) to switch. Help them switch if they’re receptive to the idea. Support them in staying with Firefox if they have extension requirements, workflow concerns, whatever. The pitch for Firefox should be easy nowadays. Talk about how it’s privacy-focussed while still being competitive with Chrome in performance and ease of use. A lot of people know that Fa$ebook is evil and gobbling up all their data, but they don’t feel like there’s that much they can practically do. Switching to Firefox and using Containers is something anyone can do easily. Of course there’s probably bigger things that you could do. But thinking locally (if you’re not already) is absolutely required before you then think globally, IMO.

eykanspelgud 8y ago
I wish I could agree, and if I were experiencing a different situation, I would be in the same camp. Firefox 65 keeps crashing on my Linux box. I've tried downgrading to 64 and below. But whatever updates were installed when I installed FF65 also crash FF64 and under. It was either change OS or let FF go. I've since moved to brave browser, but would happily go back to FF if/when I figure out and troubleshoot the issue.
- samcday 8y ago
  That's a shame :( FWIW I'm on 65.0.1 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 18.04.2 and have had no major issues. I use Firefox exclusively and use my browser heavily all day long.
- cbsks 8y ago
  Firefox has been rock solid on my Linux box for the past 6 years or so. Are you downloading it from Mozilla, or from your distro’s package manager?
  - eykanspelgud 8y ago
    I've done both. Same issue. :(
- cies 8y ago
  Also on FF65 on Ubuntu (KDE Neon) to be exact, and runs like a charm. Yes it hogs memory (with lots of tabs open), but Chrome does that too, so I consider something outside my realm of control.
- pmoriarty 8y ago
  It would help Firefox if you filed a bug report.
- the_pwner224 8y ago
  I see that you've unsuccessfully tried to install various versions of FF. The problem might be in your FF config, which persists across versions and types (stable vs nightly). The ~/.Mozilla/firefox folder contains all your FF profiles, there should just be one profile named something.default. Delete that folder and start FF and it should work. That folder does contain all your settings so those will be lost (and you can also copy this folder to other computers to copy your entire FF configuration :).
- bproven 8y ago
  Interesting - I use Fedora 29 and the defaul fedora repo version of FF with no issues on my end. I know that doesnt help, but it sounds like something specific to your setup (which I know still isn/t much solace :( )
  - noir_lord 8y ago
    Same, FF65 on F29 only browser I use no crashes on 3 different machines, one intel GPU, one RX460 (forget which) and one RTX2080.
- cat199 8y ago
  which distribution are you using? I had serious stability problems on Fedora a few months ago which sounded just like yours - I've since switched to debian for other reasons (with same exact profile data) and things are fine, which made me suspect something in the runtime or build toolchain is different and triggered some subtle bug. not to blame fedora specifically (and who knows if this was a 'me' problem); but distros do differ slightly esp. w/r/t kernel params/threading/builds etc. Might be worth trying FF ESR or running in a different distro container to see if this helps (yes, not convenient, but..) also possibly rebuild your profile (pretty sure I tried this.. but anyhow)
- cpeterso 8y ago
  Do you mind sharing any Crash Report IDs from your Firefox's about:crashes page? They should point to the crash stack trace, which might be fixable or at least suggest a workaround.
- joeseeder 8y ago
  crashing is from LLVM and X11 on amdgpus
ignoramous 8y ago
I wish duckduckgo had supported Firefox in addition to building their own privacy focused browser https://duckduckgo.com/app https://duckduckgo.com/app

eykanspelgud 8y ago

I wish I could agree, and if I were experiencing a different situation, I would be in the same camp. Firefox 65 keeps crashing on my Linux box. I've tried downgrading to 64 and below. But whatever updates were installed when I installed FF65 also crash FF64 and under. It was either change OS or let FF go. I've since moved to brave browser, but would happily go back to FF if/when I figure out and troubleshoot the issue.

samcday 8y ago
That's a shame :( FWIW I'm on 65.0.1 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 18.04.2 and have had no major issues. I use Firefox exclusively and use my browser heavily all day long.
cbsks 8y ago
Firefox has been rock solid on my Linux box for the past 6 years or so. Are you downloading it from Mozilla, or from your distro’s package manager?
- eykanspelgud 8y ago
  I've done both. Same issue. :(
cies 8y ago
Also on FF65 on Ubuntu (KDE Neon) to be exact, and runs like a charm. Yes it hogs memory (with lots of tabs open), but Chrome does that too, so I consider something outside my realm of control.
pmoriarty 8y ago
It would help Firefox if you filed a bug report.
the_pwner224 8y ago
I see that you've unsuccessfully tried to install various versions of FF. The problem might be in your FF config, which persists across versions and types (stable vs nightly). The ~/.Mozilla/firefox folder contains all your FF profiles, there should just be one profile named something.default. Delete that folder and start FF and it should work. That folder does contain all your settings so those will be lost (and you can also copy this folder to other computers to copy your entire FF configuration :).
bproven 8y ago
Interesting - I use Fedora 29 and the defaul fedora repo version of FF with no issues on my end. I know that doesnt help, but it sounds like something specific to your setup (which I know still isn/t much solace :( )
- noir_lord 8y ago
  Same, FF65 on F29 only browser I use no crashes on 3 different machines, one intel GPU, one RX460 (forget which) and one RTX2080.
cat199 8y ago
which distribution are you using? I had serious stability problems on Fedora a few months ago which sounded just like yours - I've since switched to debian for other reasons (with same exact profile data) and things are fine, which made me suspect something in the runtime or build toolchain is different and triggered some subtle bug. not to blame fedora specifically (and who knows if this was a 'me' problem); but distros do differ slightly esp. w/r/t kernel params/threading/builds etc. Might be worth trying FF ESR or running in a different distro container to see if this helps (yes, not convenient, but..) also possibly rebuild your profile (pretty sure I tried this.. but anyhow)
cpeterso 8y ago
Do you mind sharing any Crash Report IDs from your Firefox's about:crashes page? They should point to the crash stack trace, which might be fixable or at least suggest a workaround.
joeseeder 8y ago
crashing is from LLVM and X11 on amdgpus

ignoramous 8y ago

I wish duckduckgo had supported Firefox in addition to building their own privacy focused browser https://duckduckgo.com/app https://duckduckgo.com/app