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Firefox crashes on start up

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Since updating to OS Ventura 13.3.1 Firefox crashes 10 seconds after opening. Trying to open in troubleshoot mode doesn’t help, neither did a clean reinstall of the application. Meanwhile the browser still works on my iPhone and an older laptop running Monterey.

Here is the crash report:

AdapterVendorID: 0x106b AvailablePhysicalMemory: 295157760 AvailableSwapMemory: 1073086464 BackgroundTaskMode: 0 BuildID: 20230424110519 ContentSandboxCapable: 1 ContentSandboxLevel: 3 CrashTime: 1682808343 DOMFissionEnabled: 1 DOMIPCEnabled: 1 EMCheckCompatibility: true ExperimentalFeatures: devtools.inspector.compatibility.enabled GpuSandboxLevel: 0 GraphicsNumActiveRenderers: 1 GraphicsNumRenderers: 1 HeadlessMode: 0 IPCMessageName: PBackgroundLSSnapshot::Reply_LoadKeys IPCMessageSize: 367609588 InstallTime: 1682716096 MacAvailableMemorySysctl: 64 MacMemoryPressure: Normal MacMemoryPressureCriticalTime: Unset MacMemoryPressureNormalTime: 1682808313 MacMemoryPressureSysctl: 1 MacMemoryPressureWarningTime: Unset MozCrashReason: MOZ_CRASH(IPC message size is too large) Notes: FP(D00-L1000-W0000000-T010) WR? WR+ GL Context? GL Context+ ProductID: {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} ProductName: Firefox PurgeablePhysicalMemory: 540672 RDDProcessStatus: Running ReleaseChannel: release SafeMode: 1 SecondsSinceLastCrash: 37 StartupCrash: 0 StartupTime: 1682808313 SubmittedFrom: Client TelemetryEnvironment: 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the operating system setting for buttons, menus, and windows.","name":"System theme — 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Throttleable: 1 TotalPhysicalMemory: 8589934592 URL: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/112.0.2/whatsnew/?oldversion=111.0.1 UptimeTS: 29.458333333333332 UtilityProcessStatus: Running Vendor: Mozilla Version: 112.0.2 useragent_locale: en-US

This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.

Since updating to OS Ventura 13.3.1 Firefox crashes 10 seconds after opening. Trying to open in troubleshoot mode doesn’t help, neither did a clean reinstall of the application. Meanwhile the browser still works on my iPhone and an older laptop running Monterey. Here is the crash report: AdapterVendorID: 0x106b AvailablePhysicalMemory: 295157760 AvailableSwapMemory: 1073086464 BackgroundTaskMode: 0 BuildID: 20230424110519 ContentSandboxCapable: 1 ContentSandboxLevel: 3 CrashTime: 1682808343 DOMFissionEnabled: 1 DOMIPCEnabled: 1 EMCheckCompatibility: true ExperimentalFeatures: devtools.inspector.compatibility.enabled GpuSandboxLevel: 0 GraphicsNumActiveRenderers: 1 GraphicsNumRenderers: 1 HeadlessMode: 0 IPCMessageName: PBackgroundLSSnapshot::Reply_LoadKeys IPCMessageSize: 367609588 InstallTime: 1682716096 MacAvailableMemorySysctl: 64 MacMemoryPressure: Normal MacMemoryPressureCriticalTime: Unset MacMemoryPressureNormalTime: 1682808313 MacMemoryPressureSysctl: 1 MacMemoryPressureWarningTime: Unset MozCrashReason: MOZ_CRASH(IPC message size is too large) Notes: FP(D00-L1000-W0000000-T010) WR? WR+ GL Context? GL Context+ ProductID: {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} ProductName: Firefox PurgeablePhysicalMemory: 540672 RDDProcessStatus: Running ReleaseChannel: release SafeMode: 1 SecondsSinceLastCrash: 37 StartupCrash: 0 StartupTime: 1682808313 SubmittedFrom: Client TelemetryEnvironment: {"build":{"applicationId":"{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}","applicationName":"Firefox","architecture":"aarch64","buildId":"20230424110519","version":"112.0.2","vendor":"Mozilla","displayVersion":"112.0.2","platformVersion":"112.0.2","xpcomAbi":"aarch64-gcc3","updaterAvailable":true},"partner":{"distributionId":null,"distributionVersion":null,"partnerId":null,"distributor":null,"distributorChannel":null,"partnerNames":[]},"system":{"memoryMB":8192,"virtualMaxMB":null,"cpu":{"extensions":["hasNEON"]},"os":{"name":"Darwin","version":"22.4.0","locale":"en-GB"},"hdd":{"profile":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null},"binary":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null},"system":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null}},"gfx":{"D2DEnabled":null,"DWriteEnabled":null,"ContentBackend":"Skia","Headless":false,"EmbeddedInFirefoxReality":null,"adapters":[{"description":null,"vendorID":"0x106b","deviceID":null,"subsysID":null,"RAM":0,"driver":null,"driverVendor":null,"driverVersion":null,"driverDate":null,"GPUActive":true}],"monitors":[{"screenWidth":3840,"screenHeight":2160,"scale":2}],"features":{"compositor":"webrender_software","hwCompositing":{"status":"blocked:FEATURE_FAILURE_COMP_SAFEMODE"},"gpuProcess":{"status":"unused"},"webrender":{"status":"unavailable-in-safe-mode"},"wrCompositor":{"status":"available"},"openglCompositing":{"status":"unavailable:FEATURE_FAILURE_OPENGL_NEED_HWCOMP"},"omtp":{"status":"unused"}}},"appleModelId":"Mac14,3","hasWinPackageId":null},"settings":{"blocklistEnabled":true,"e10sEnabled":true,"e10sMultiProcesses":8,"fissionEnabled":true,"telemetryEnabled":false,"locale":"en-US","intl":{"requestedLocales":["en-US"],"availableLocales":["en-US"],"appLocales":["en-US"],"systemLocales":["en-GB"],"regionalPrefsLocales":["en-GB"],"acceptLanguages":["en-US","en"]},"update":{"channel":"release","enabled":true,"autoDownload":true,"background":true},"userPrefs":{"browser.fixup.alternate.enabled":false,"browser.search.region":"AU","browser.search.widget.inNavBar":false,"browser.startup.homepage":"<user-set>","browser.startup.page":3,"browser.urlbar.autoFill":true,"browser.urlbar.autoFill.adaptiveHistory.enabled":false,"browser.urlbar.dnsResolveSingleWordsAfterSearch":0,"browser.urlbar.quicksuggest.dataCollection.enabled":false,"browser.urlbar.showSearchSuggestionsFirst":false,"browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.nonsponsored":false,"browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.sponsored":false,"browser.urlbar.suggest.bestmatch":true,"media.gmp-gmpopenh264.lastInstallStart":1679729012,"media.gmp-gmpopenh264.lastDownload":1679729013,"media.gmp-gmpopenh264.lastUpdate":1679729013,"media.gmp-manager.lastCheck":1680847314,"media.gmp-manager.lastEmptyCheck":1680847314,"network.trr.strict_native_fallback":false,"widget.content.allow-gtk-dark-theme":false,"widget.content.gtk-high-contrast.enabled":true},"sandbox":{"effectiveContentProcessLevel":3,"contentWin32kLockdownState":3},"addonCompatibilityCheckEnabled":true,"isDefaultBrowser":true,"defaultSearchEngine":"other-Ecosia 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Throttleable: 1 TotalPhysicalMemory: 8589934592 URL: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/112.0.2/whatsnew/?oldversion=111.0.1 UptimeTS: 29.458333333333332 UtilityProcessStatus: Running Vendor: Mozilla Version: 112.0.2 useragent_locale: en-US This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.

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What you posted above is the technical information about the state of the application (troubleshooting data) that is send along with the report.

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Ok this seems to have been resolve the second time I tried refreshing Firefox. Please ignore.