I think Firefox is crashing my system
I have Debian 12 on one computer and Debian 12 and 13 on another. The first one is an old backup I rarely use. The new one was crashing in both Debian 12 and 13 so I sent the MB back to MSI. I started using the backup computer and it's crashing too, so MSI will probably send the MB back and ask "Why did you send this to us? There's nothing wrong with it."
I usually run with an XTerm window, Evolution, Firefox, and occasional NEdit or Okular windows. The entire system (not just one app) was crashing, usually when I was reading mail and then reading stuff linked in mail messages using Firefox 128.13.0esr. I think Evolution wasn't to blame because I started having it not running, opening it only occasionally, and I got a crash while Firefox was running. By "crash" I mean that the mouse cursor stops working, the graphs in GKrellM stop moving, Alt-Ctrl-F12 doesn't switch, Alt-Ctrl-Del doesn't do anything, tapping the power button doesn't offer me a "what do you want to do" overlay, ….
My window manager is KDE Plasma 5.27.5 on my backup computer, and version 6.something on the newer one.
Does anybody else have this problem?
I started running Konqueror and Chromium instead of Firefox, and it hasn't crashed so far.
— Van Snyder
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