Re: I think Firefox is crashing my system

[Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net>]

On Sat, 2025-08-16 at 07:21 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:

On 16/8/25 07:08, Van Snyder wrote:

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

If you included significant information, such as the CPU and RAM

specifications, it would be helpful, and, a more complete problem

description.

The problem occurs on two computers so I doubt it's hardware related.

One has Intel i7-890 and the other and the other has Intel i9-14000K.

The MB on the backup computer is Gigabyte H55M-S2H. The MB I sent back to MSI was Z790.

dmidecode says the memory on the backup computer is of "Type: Unknown,"  two sticks, 4GB each. The newer computer had two Crucial DDR5 Pro sticks, 16 GB each.

I believe that it is best not to run Firefox on a 386 with 2GB RAM and

no swap partition, for example.

Also, regarding the crashes involving Firefox, did you encounter

Internet connection failures, when the crashes occurred? I have found,

by experience, that loss of Internet access, causes Firefox to wreak havoc.

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Bret Busby

Armadale

West Australia

(UTC+0800)

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