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I use Firefox downloaded from the official website as well as the Flatpak version on my Debian laptop. It crashes frequently, as in every 2 hours or so. I don't

I use Firefox downloaded from the official website as well as the Flatpak version on my Debian laptop. It crashes frequently, as in every 2 hours or so. I don't do anything heavy on the browser except using it to read documentation. This has been an issue in the last two months and I don't know what's wrong... Also, does anybody known why Firefox still depends on the deprecated libdbus-glib-1-2 [1] in Debian and based distros? For example, try to uninstall the package. Then download the latest Firefox from their website [2]. Extract the archive, launch the executable inside it from a terminal. You will see an error message that it is unable to load the DBus library. 1 - https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/libdbus-glib-1-2 https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/libdbus-glib-1-2 2 - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

autoexec 3y ago
I've got Firefox on a widows 10 box for work and ever since whichever ESR update made it just difficult enough to tell which tab is active to be annoying, Firefox crashes for me all the time and it never just takes out a single tab either. I really blame myself though. It only happens after I've had the browser open for weeks, with at least 3 windows open at once, and literally hundreds of open tabs with hundreds more come and gone since Firefox was restarted. I have about:memory bookmarked, and hitting everything in the Free Memory box seems to delay the inevitable a bit while allowing Javascript seems to make it worse. I doubt many others have the problem and I'm impressed Firefox holds up as well as it does!
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dTP90pN 3y ago
Have you looked at the crash reports via `about:crashes`? This should show you if there's any open bug report associated with the crash(es) you encounter. Regarding libdbus-glib-1-2, you may want to open a bug. It looks like [1] it's mainly used by the ~12 year old UPowerClient, and more recently, for wake/sleep and timezone change notifications (nsAppShell). [1] https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=DBusG.*&path=&case=false&regexp=true https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=DBusG.*&path=...
- arun-mani-j 3y ago
  Thanks, I will check it out!

autoexec 3y ago

I've got Firefox on a widows 10 box for work and ever since whichever ESR update made it just difficult enough to tell which tab is active to be annoying, Firefox crashes for me all the time and it never just takes out a single tab either. I really blame myself though. It only happens after I've had the browser open for weeks, with at least 3 windows open at once, and literally hundreds of open tabs with hundreds more come and gone since Firefox was restarted. I have about:memory bookmarked, and hitting everything in the Free Memory box seems to delay the inevitable a bit while allowing Javascript seems to make it worse. I doubt many others have the problem and I'm impressed Firefox holds up as well as it does!

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dTP90pN 3y ago

Have you looked at the crash reports via `about:crashes`? This should show you if there's any open bug report associated with the crash(es) you encounter. Regarding libdbus-glib-1-2, you may want to open a bug. It looks like [1] it's mainly used by the ~12 year old UPowerClient, and more recently, for wake/sleep and timezone change notifications (nsAppShell). [1] https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=DBusG.*&path=&case=false&regexp=true https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=DBusG.*&path=...

arun-mani-j 3y ago
Thanks, I will check it out!