Firefox crashing
Hi Mozilla I hav got a problem with Firefox on Kubuntu 24.04.3. Everytime the computer is restarted Firefox crashes the first time it's started. That's not a big problem, starting Firefox again don't take long. But the problems is exceeding. If i start Firefox by clicking a link in a mail in Thunderbird. And Firefox has not yet been started, It crashes, but now it's also invaliding the Task bar on the screen where Firefox was started. Invaliding means that I cannot start apps from that screens taskbar, and the clock has stalled, none of the tools works etc. The only possibility solution I have been able to figure out, is restart (It's like going back to Win 98). Sometimes I am able to start a app from that invalid taskbar. But it's not the one app that i clicked on. Even though I can trigger it via Thunderbird, the invaliding of the taskbar will occur after a while. And I have to restart. I am not sure if this is the right place to post. But Firefox is always involved, but maybe Thunderbird or Ubuntu was the right place? Every time Firefox crashes there is send a crash report to Mozilla, but is has been going on for a while, so i guess that nobody is looking at the crash report. If I use Chromium instead of Firefox I don't see the problem.
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What Desktop? X11 or Wayland?
Try downloading Firefox from Mozilla, 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
If it's an option, try running your os via live usb stick.
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20251211
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.20.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.18.0-2-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5825U with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (62.1 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: HP ProBook 455 15.6 inch G9 Notebook PC
Hi I have tried to run Firefox from the folder and it has the same behaviour. I will add to my previous post, that I have figured out howto trigger the problem. First time after restart, I open Linked-in and Firefox is crashing. Then I press restart on the send report dialog. And Firefox is not crashing anymore. Linked-in triggeres it. I must press restart Firefox otherwise I can't start my Thunderbird.
The problem is clearly related to Thunderbird and the Kubuntu Taskbar.
My desktop is running Wayland KDE (Kubuntu) I have 3 screens one labtop screen and two other screens
My CPU details is: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Address sizes: 48 bits physical, 48 bits virtual Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 32
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-31
Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD
Model name: AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX with Radeon Graphics
CPU family: 25
Model: 97
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: 16
Socket(s): 1
Stepping: 2
Frequency boost: enabled
CPU(s) scaling MHz: 19%
CPU max MHz: 5462.0000
CPU min MHz: 400.0000
BogoMIPS: 4990.40
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mm
xext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good amd_lbr_v2 nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aper
fmperf rapl pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_
lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_c
ore perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb cat_l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate ssbd mba perfmon_v2 ibrs ibpb stibp ibrs_enhan
ced vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid cqm rdt_a avx512f avx512dq rdseed adx smap avx512ifma clflus
hopt clwb avx512cd sha_ni avx512bw avx512vl xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm
_mbm_local user_shstk avx512_bf16 clzero irperf xsaveerptr rdpru wbnoinvd cppc arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save ts
c_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic vgif x2avic v_spec_ctrl vnmi avx512vbmi
umip pku ospke avx512_vbmi2 gfni vaes vpclmulqdq avx512_vnni avx512_bitalg avx512_vpopcntdq rdpid overflow_recov s
uccor smca fsrm flush_l1d amd_lbr_pmc_freeze
Virtualization features:
Virtualization: AMD-V
Caches (sum of all):
L1d: 512 KiB (16 instances) L1i: 512 KiB (16 instances) L2: 16 MiB (16 instances) L3: 64 MiB (2 instances)
NUMA:
NUMA node(s): 1 NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-31
Vulnerabilities:
Gather data sampling: Not affected
Ghostwrite: Not affected
Indirect target selection: Not affected
Itlb multihit: Not affected
L1tf: Not affected
Mds: Not affected
Meltdown: Not affected
Mmio stale data: Not affected
Reg file data sampling: Not affected
Retbleed: Not affected
Spec rstack overflow: Mitigation; Safe RET
Spec store bypass: Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Spectre v1: Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Spectre v2: Mitigation; Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB conditional; STIBP always-on; PBRSB-eIBRS Not affected; BHI Not affect
ed
Srbds: Not affected
Tsa: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode
Tsx async abort: Not affected
Vmscape: Mitigation; IBPB before exit to userspace
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See if it crashes in X11. Is it LinkedIn home page? Send a link.
I can't get my computer running X11 it crashes. It is a case that Toxedo computers has to solve, I have no time schedule for that but it's a year ago they promised me a solution. It is not just the Linked-in page that crashes Firefox, other sites as well. But Linked-in does it consequent. You want a link "https://www.linkedin.com/feed/"
We're sorry to hear that Firefox is crashing. In order to assist you better, please follow the steps below to provide us crash IDs to help us learn more about your crash.
The crash report is several pages of data. We need the report numbers to see the whole report.
- Enter about:crashes in the Firefox address bar and press Enter. A list of Submitted (and Unsubmitted, if any) Crash Reports will appear, similar to the one shown below.
- Copy the 5 most recent Submitted Report IDs that start with bp- and then go back to your forum question and paste those IDs into the "Post a Reply" box.
Note: If a recent Report ID does not start with bp- click on it to submit the report.
(Please don't take a screenshot of your crashes, just copy and paste the IDs. The below image is just an example of what your Firefox screen should look like.)
Thank you for your help!
More information and further troubleshooting steps can be found in the Troubleshoot Firefox crashes (closing or quitting unexpectedly) article.