9 thoughts on - Firefox-45.6.0-1.el7.CentOS.x86_64 Crashing… Unusable

• For what it’s worth, in my normal browsing since the update I have not experienced any crashing.

• Hello,

  Neither do I, 3 different 64-bit systems.

  Regards,

• I should have mentioned, I open up one window, but multiple tabs… looks like about twenty. That in itself might be the problem. Or it might be one particular webpage which is causing the crash, or a combination of two or more. This system is set up with lots of swap and none of it is being used. Not even half of the 8G RAM is being used.

  The fact remains, however, that Firefox yesterday (the previous version)
  wasn’t crashing running the same window with the same webpages running in the same tabs. So some bad code must have appeared in this new version.

• ken wrote:
  No one’s coming complaining to me, but in the logs, I’m seeing a lot of plugin-container crashes.

  mark

• No such problems here.

  I suggest you try testing firefox with any plugins and extensions disabled. Failing that, try “refreshing” firefox[1].

  Have you installed any packages from non-standard repos? I’ve had some problems in the past with ffmpeg from the nux repo following a firefox upgrade (problems which were promptly fixed by the maintainer of that repo.)

  1:
  https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings

• WRT ffmpeg, we now have a CentOSplus version of firefox for CentOS-6 and CentOS-7 with ffmpeg enabled.

• just out of curiosity; this ffmpeg support is statically build into firefox and depends not on any library outside, right?

• No, it enables Firefox to use ffmpeg that exists on the system. I use the rpms from Nux! Dextop on CentOS-7. He also has rpms for CentOS-6.

  https://li.nux.ro/repos.html

  The default firefox shipped by RHEL (so also in the main CentOS repos)
  has ffmpeg disabled for the last several releases.

• I am having this issue on a fresh Cent OS machine. Not sure what the cause is.