Re: I think Firefox is crashing my system
On 8/15/25 16:08, 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
On 8/15/25 16:35, Van Snyder wrote:
> 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.
On 8/15/25 16:36, Van Snyder wrote:
> I've had no network trouble.
On 8/15/25 16:38, Van Snyder wrote:
> The GKrellM meter shows about 1/8 of memory is in use. So it's not a
> memory leak in FF.
On 8/15/25 16:39, Van Snyder wrote:
> When the system crashes, it is well and truly crashed. The mouse cursor
> doesn't move. The keyboard doesn't do anything. Tapping the power
> button doesn't do anything. The graphs in GKrellM aren't moving,... And
> I can't log in from another computer using ssh. So it's hard to return
> to the console and ask what top is telling me.
Please run the following commands and post your console session
(prompts, commands input, output displayed):
$ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a
$ free
$ df
$ dpkg -l firefox*
What extensions are installed and enabled in Firefox?
Please post a reproducible procedure for crashing your computer.
David
p.s. Does anybody know how to dump all Firefox settings to a plaintext
file? Browse to "about:config", enter "*" in the search box, and save
the page?
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