ESR 102.10.0 crashes every other launch on Debian
Updated. See bottom for up-to-date question.
Hello! :) I'm on a pretty fresh install of Debian bullseye. Immediately after launching Firefox ESR, it crashes. Not always, but every ~2nd launch. The Mozilla Crash Reporter "We're Sorry" appears and the crash looks like this in terminal: mars@desktop:~/Desktop$ firefox ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 83677 ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal... mars@desktop:~/Desktop$
I tried making a fresh profile without addons/settings, and it still crashes but less at every ~6-7th launch. However, it does not crash in safe mode, though visiting websites while in safe mode is laggy. Here is the terminal of safe-mode: Missing chrome or resource URL: resource://gre/modules/UpdateListener.jsm Missing chrome or resource URL: resource://gre/modules/UpdateListener.sys.mjs Missing chrome or resource URL: resource://gre/modules/UpdateListener.jsm Missing chrome or resource URL: resource://gre/modules/UpdateListener.sys.mjs Sandbox: Unexpected EOF, op 0 flags 00 path /proc/cpuinfo
Any idea? Thanks in advance!
Extra observations:
- Didn't have these issues with Firefox on Fedora (Wayland) and Gentoo.
- Toggling Caps Lock takes about half a second to activate/deactivate in Firefox, resulting in a lot of accidentally capitalized letters.
- Generally, Firefox seems pretty slow and scrolling through items/websites with images is a bit choppy. Websites load slower compared to my forementioned distros.
- Not sure if it matters, but I installed Debian with automatic/guided (encrypted LVM) and noticed after that my swap size is only 980 MB when my RAM is 16 GB. Just mentioning it in case it's relevant.
System info:
- DE: XFCE with x11.
- Kernel: 5.10.0-21-amd64.
- GPU: NVIDIA contrib non-free driver. Force Composition Pipeline ON. Allow Flipping OFF. TripleBuffer ON.
- CPU: Intel i5 6600K
UPDATE: I found the cause of the crash. If I enable Use hardware acceleration when available, Firefox crashes on launch. If I disable it, it doesn't crash which is nice. BUT, it leads to unbearable lag and puts my CPU usage to 70-100% when dealing with videos or images. This exact thing happens on two fresh installs on different SSDs.
Any advice? Do I need some additional drivers for my Debian install? Thanks!
Info:
- Debian Bullseye.
- Firefox ESR 102.10.0.
- GTX 970 w/ proprietary nvidia-driver.
- GNOME on X11.
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UPDATE: I found the cause of the crash. If I enable "Use hardware acceleration when available", Firefox crashes on launch. If I disable it, it doesn't crash which is nice. BUT, it leads to unbearable lag and puts my CPU usage to 70-100% when dealing with videos or images. This exact thing happens on two fresh installs on different SSDs.
Any advice? Do I need some additional drivers for my Debian install? Thanks!
- Debian Bullseye.
- Firefox ESR 102.10.0.
- GTX 970 w/ proprietary nvidia-driver.
- GNOME on X11.
Modified
Is 102 from your distro? I have no issues with ESR. Try downloading Firefox from Mozilla. Download, unzip, and 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