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Firefox completely unresponsive after update (Linux Mint)

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Hello,

I work on Linux Mint. Software is being updated automatically. FF received an update and became completely unresponsive.

  • bookmarks are not loaded
  • no button or hamburger menu works
  • I can type in the search box BUT enter does not work

I have completely purged FF and reinstalled from the Linux Mint software library. This results in the same unresponsive behavior of FF.

I have no Idea what to do now.

Hello, I work on Linux Mint. Software is being updated automatically. FF received an update and became completely unresponsive. * bookmarks are not loaded * no button or hamburger menu works * I can type in the search box BUT enter does not work I have completely purged FF and reinstalled from the Linux Mint software library. This results in the same unresponsive behavior of FF. I have no Idea what to do now.

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jonzn4SUSE
jonzn4SUSE
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Try Firefox from Mozilla. Download, unzip, run firefox-bin from the folder and see if you have the same issue. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release

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jonzn4SUSE said
Try Firefox from Mozilla. Download, unzip, run firefox-bin from the folder and see if you have the same issue. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release

Under linux commandline, which should be the standard executable? 'firefox' or 'firefox-bin' ? and what is the difference?

jonzn4SUSE
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Kelt,

Good question, here's what I found. firefox is a shell script, which invokes a second shell script named run-mozilla.sh which invokes the binary executable named firefox-bin https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328155 Did a little test... I deleted firefox-bin and tried to run firefox, but no joy.