firefox crashes

Toutatis · 12-01-2015, 03:24 AM

version 42.0 from slackware64-current

the crash happens even in safe mode, tested on 3 different computers, on

http://leseconoclastes.fr/

How to enable crash reporter (this option seems absent) ?

Toutatis · 12-01-2015, 04:08 AM

I have tried the x86-64 binary provided by ftp.mozilla.org (firefox-42.0.tar.bz2)

It does not crash

brobr · 12-01-2015, 04:26 AM

No crash here, on current with firefox 42 with that site. But without hardware acceleration, I've turned that off (in about:preferences#advanced)

Toutatis · 12-01-2015, 04:42 AM

I have tried after removing the cache (.config/mozilla), renaming ~/.mozilla and disabling hardware acceleration. It still crashes but differently: not immediately after loading the page, but if I try to open a new browser tab.

Gerard Lally · 12-01-2015, 04:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toutatis

version 42.0 from slackware64-current

the crash happens even in safe mode, tested on 3 different computers, on

http://leseconoclastes.fr/

No crash here on slackware64-current. Very strange that it crashes on three different computers for you.

Toutatis · 12-01-2015, 05:04 AM

I have tried 'firefox -safe' from the console

It does not crash afer opening http://leseconoclastes.fr/ , but it does if I try to open something in another tab

I get the following error messages

Quote:

ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment.
[Child 10738] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /tmp/firefox-42.0/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 1768
[Child 10738] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /tmp/firefox-42.0/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 1768
Erreur de segmentation

In /var/log/messages I get this

Quote:

Dec 1 12:01:29 toutatis kernel: [20658.850627] Chrome_ChildThr[10741]: segfault at 0 ip 000000000040854d sp 00007efc101fe550 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+50000]

Toutatis · 12-01-2015, 06:21 AM

I think that I have solved the problem. Recently I have changed the sound options in KDE : from VLC to Gstreamer. And I think that firefox tried to use gstreamer1, they seem to cohabit with difficulty ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1105890 ). In this link I found that I had to set media.gstreamer.enabled in about:config to "False". This works, I have no crash (and I have sound in firefox).