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Over the past 2 or 3 weeks, I've noticed that firefox tabs are crashing more often out of nowhere.

https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/4a42f4cd-2203-40ba-a40c-616590251210#tab-details

Here's one of the links for the most recent tab crash. Other crashes pretty much were all the same. I can't read or understand this, so I was hoping someone who can is able to tell me what is wrong.

I fear that it might be hardware related, as I've had tabs also crash on Edge and on a new install of Firefox Developer Edition (which I downloaded simply to test if things crashed there as well.) I've also noticed programs like Discord & Elgato Wave Link sometimes randomly crashing as well - but I'm unsure how to pull logs for those, Firefox was the easiest.

My laptop's hardware specs are as follows:

Lenovo Legion Pro 5 - 16IRX9 Processor: Intel Core i9-14900HX (2.2GHz) Installed RAM: 32 GB GPU: GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU Windows 11

If you need more information, please let me know.

Here are some previous crashes that I've reported as well:

https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/755c394a-584f-4d2a-8c59-3c39d0251210 https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/0415701b-4128-4717-9bc8-445cb0251209

NB - For the past half a year I have to sometimes right click to interact with them, anyway

Effectively, I will interact with the extension at the most basic, normal level on something that has interactive elements like a dropdown menu, or basic options.

I will click / right click on the icon and the highlight will appear, then that's it ... the browser then crashes and does not recover. :(

What's worse is that I have to Force Quit and when I restart there is no crash report to send to Moz.

I am just wondering if other Linux users have experienced similar issues.

The attached image is taken at the moment before the 'Force Quit' dialogue opens up in Debian 12 Gnome (Wayland) ...

I have Hardware Acceleration on.

I am about to start testing with it off, but I work from the browser, and do not want performance compromises. So that is (at best) a work-around, and certainly is not a fix.

I'm on version 147.0.2 (64-bit) which would appear to be from the Mozilla Firefox Debian Package mozilla-deb - 1.0 install/repo/whatever ... and the PC specs are: Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10850H CPU @ 2.70GHz Memory: 32705MB (11893MB used) Resolution: 7680x2358 pixels OpenGL Renderer: Quadro RTX 3000/PCIe/SSE2

These are my media. prefs ... but ... I doubt that it is relevant: media.ffmpeg.allow-openh264 true media.ffmpeg.customized-buffer-allocation true media.ffmpeg.disable-software-fallback false media.ffmpeg.enabled true media.ffmpeg.encoder.cpu-used 7 media.ffmpeg.encoder.enabled true media.ffmpeg.encoder.quantizer-max 35 media.ffmpeg.encoder.quantizer-min 10 media.ffmpeg.vaapi.force-surface-zero-copy 2

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Firefox has been crashing regularly for a full day now. I have one profile with multiple extensions, and a fresh profile that is meant to test firefox without any. With this new, "clean-slate" profile with none of my extensions installed, I still get repeated crashes. It is getting in the way of my ability to work- it happens even in Troubleshoot mode, even though I could not confirm any hardware issues prior to this.

Will I need to delete the extenstion-filled profile entirely before going forward? Is there an update I need to install, or anything else I should do myself? Should I provide a list of my extensions?

Attached is the Report ID of my latest crash- hopefully it will help.

Thank you!

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Thank you Michael

mozilla keeps crashing almost on every website (says the tab has crashed). I checked, mozila is up to date, all extensions removed, no viruses or spyware, and it is crashing in troubleshoot mode as well.

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p-878c606d-9511-4e2d-8463-5bcd40260113 13-Jan-26, 11:02 View bp-b92cc3c4-aa94-4a34-b0e3-bbb4a0260113 13-Jan-26, 11:02 View bp-a923ab00-9c5a-497d-b879-5849a0260113 13-Jan-26, 11:02 View bp-bd9b3fd4-9e88-43de-84d4-8b6210260113 13-Jan-26, 11:02 View bp-ed987df9-1563-4285-a6c3-da7290260113 13-Jan-26, 11:02 View bp-5d3d4a2e-6a35-41e3-b00e-0e8b60260113 13-Jan-26, 11:02 View bp-40bfaa75-2f10-4b5a-8d8c-b593d0260113 13-Jan-26, 11:01 View bp-8ddae55f-953d-48bc-ab42-6c21f0260113 13-Jan-26, 11:01 View bp-55bec64b-f2cf-4dd3-8cc4-2201b0260113 13-Jan-26, 11:01 View bp-c0805bea-737b-48de-ac3c-698550260113 13-Jan-26, 11:01 View bp-dc39e12a-d135-409c-b7ff-2f7440260113 13-Jan-26, 11:01 View bp-98bb14f4-55ba-4791-8958-924830260113 13-Jan-26, 11:01 View bp-6d26a731-7b7e-4487-a929-ec6970260113 13-Jan-26, 09:28 View bp-f056e88d-b117-41e7-92ce-6b0cb0260112 12-Jan-26, 16:07 View bp-613d6f88-4ac7-4586-9b6e-c0d6c0260112 12-Jan-26, 16:06 View bp-7220e233-4a4b-408f-b2ff-82a540260112 12-Jan-26, 16:05 View

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Hello,

I am experiencing a recurring issue with Firefox on Kali Linux.

Environment:

- OS: Kali Linux (running inside Termux on Android) - Connection: VNC (RealVNC) - Device: Android phone (low RAM) - Desktop: XFCE

Problem: Whenever I open Firefox, tabs frequently crash with the message: “Gah. Your tab just crashed.”

What I already tried:

- Disabled hardware acceleration - Disabled recommended performance settings - Ran Firefox in safe mode - Created a new Firefox profile - Lowered VNC resolution - Restarted the system

The problem still persists.

I believe this may be related to graphics rendering or memory limitations under VNC/Termux.

Please advise if there is a workaround or configuration that can prevent this crash.

Thank you for your support.