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A comment on Firefox 80.

Re:Firefox 80 by kstenerud on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:05PM (#24274136)
Firefox has been constantly crashing for the past 6 months or so on all of my computers (Linux, Windows, and now a new Mac as well - but mostly linux, probably because I use it most). Usually it's just a bunch of tabs that crash (almost always multiple tabs), but about 2-3 times a week the entire browser crashes. It's getting to the point where I don't want to use ff anymore :/
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Re:Firefox 80 by kbrosnan on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:12PM (#24274240)
Provide some crash ID URLs? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozillacrashreporter
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Re:Firefox 80 by kstenerud on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:33PM (#24274471)
I click send every time it crashes. It doesn't seem to matter what the URL is. Sometimes it's gmail, sometimes it's HN, could be any site really.

Also, they should have the url of the crashed tab anyway.

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Re:Firefox 80 by takeda on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @04:26PM (#24275719)
Click on the URL given it shows you how to get the ID that's asked about: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozillacrashreporter

TLDR: got to about:crashes and provide IDs of the crashes you've had

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Re:Firefox 80 by kstenerud on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @05:48PM (#24276566)
Ah interesting. OK I've clicked submit all.
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Re:Firefox 80 by kbrosnan on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @07:54PM (#24277636)
I was suggesting you post the urls here or email me at my username at mozilla . com
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Re:Firefox 80 by clumsysmurf on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:16PM (#24274283)
I seem to have enough windows / tabs open, that when it starts up on OS X it causes a kernel panic ~ 50% time and brings down the whole machine. If it manages to start everything is OK until I try to restart it. Of course, this is technically a problem with OS X but ... no other app manages to do this.
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Re:Firefox 80 by tynorf on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:55PM (#24274703)
Out of curiosity, how many windows/tabs? I routinely launch FF with dozens of windows/hundreds of tabs and I've never had macOS kernel panic in that case.
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Re:Firefox 80 by formerly_proven on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:41PM (#24274558)
"$app is causing my unmaintained and broken OS to crash"
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Re:Firefox 80 by schlipity on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:08PM (#24274180)
Have you tried resetting your profile? That is a regularly recommended fix for some crashes.
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Re:Firefox 80 by kstenerud on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:09PM (#24274191)
Many times. Doesn't seem to make much of a difference.
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Re:Firefox 80 by Karunamon on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @04:05PM (#24275506)
I had this for a while, and it turned out to be a virtual memory exhaustion problem. I never found out the cause - it just randomly stopped happening one day, and I outright abandoned FF not long after.
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