| I reinstalled Firefox 138, and removed the “.mozilla” directory, and launched it from a terminal.
Using the MATE desktop, it launches and works (slowly).
Using LXDE, this time I see content in the windows. But as soon as I click on a menu I get a hard desktop lockup, my remote ssh session disconnects, and the windfarm fans go to 100%.
No messages in the terminal window.
So then I power cycle.
I like MATE anyway — it’s just a bit slower in use that LXDE I find. But better than crashing.
Ken On May 12, 2025, at 6:37 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 15:16 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:Hi Damien,
On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 23:00 +1000, Damien Stewart wrote:
I can confirm this on my system. Which is has an R7 250 in it and
because of that lacks hardware 3d and 2d by the looks of it, so I need
to rely on fbdev. Firefox works a lot better by not crashing on startup.
It opens up a window but only has borders as inside content is blank. I
also see it ignoring menus. But the menu does pop up with the right side
widget. Once of the checkmarks turned on but the menu bar would not. It
would not quit. I had to kill it with kill. I didn't notice any
unusually high cpu usage when I ran top to check. From CLI it did not
print any messages. But I could Ctrl-C it to quit.
This sounds more like a configuration issue. Did you try purging your
.mozilla directory or renaming it? I have a really hard time believing
that it's actually broken as I verified it myself as you can see from
my screenshot.
FWIW, I did not use any kind of acceleration. Just plain X.
You may try to disable GPU acceleration. However, there doesn't seem tobe a command line parameter for that. So, the easiest way would be toSSH into your ppc64 machine and run firefox with "firefox -no-remote".For example:$ ssh -X -C debian-ppc64$ firefox -no-remoteThen go into the settings menu to disable it, see [1].Adrian[1] https://support.udemy.com/hc/en-us/articles/22543012795799-Troubleshooting-How-to-Disable-Hardware-Acceleration-on-Your-Browser?
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