Firefox cannot keep track of the fact that it's already up to date
Mac OS X High Sierra 10.13.6 Here's the routine with FF on this machine: If FF 68.0.2 is running, after a while I will try to open a new tab and be told "Sorry we need to… (read more)
Mac OS X High Sierra 10.13.6
Here's the routine with FF on this machine: If FF 68.0.2 is running, after a while I will try to open a new tab and be told "Sorry we need to do one small thing to keep going, FF has been updated in the background, Restart FF" I do so. It opens up a new, clean profile in a new window (About FF now says 68.0.1 in this version of FF, and it downloads 68.0.2 and prompts to Restart FF (again)). At which point it runs "a new helper tool" and re-updates FF to 68.0.2. I then have to mess with about:profiles to go back to my profile. Things then run routinely for a few hours or a day, before the whole routine starts over again.
Alternately, if FF 68.0.2 is not running, if I open it (after opening and closing it several times without issue), I will get a message that "You've launched an older version of FF, Create New Profile or Quit". Create New Profile leads me through the routine above.
Versions of the above routine have happened not just between 68.0.2 and 68.0.1, but also between earlier version updates. That is, this has been going on for months. It does seem in the last couple of weeks that the interval of time has shortened and I'm having to do this routine everyday or even multiple times a day. I have no problems like this with FF on any other machine.
I've tried:
Trashing FF and re-dl'ing from Mozilla. No dice. Trashing FF, trashing Library/Cache/Mozilla and Firefox folders. No dice. Trashing FF, trashing Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles (and re-signing in to retrieve my existing bookmarks etc and re-setting up View and other Preferences). No dice.
If anyone has any ideas, I'll be grateful, thanks in advance.
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Hi Firefox has many crashes, several times a day, on every tabs opened, sometimes only one tab, sometimes all. Tabs are open on facebook, forums, videos, a don't see a re… (read more)
Hi Firefox has many crashes, several times a day, on every tabs opened, sometimes only one tab, sometimes all. Tabs are open on facebook, forums, videos, a don't see a recurrent scheme, it happens at any moment, even if I have only one tab open on serveral ones... I tried to start safe mode, doesn't change anything. My device is a recent intel NUC core I3, with 8 GO RAM. My OS is Solus, everything is correctly updated (Solus and firefox)
Last crash report : Firefox 69.0.2 Crash Report [@ firefox@0x1f2ee ] ID: 956dce02-3017-4016-b408-de15e0191009
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