Firefox freezes sometime on attempt to move using mouse
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Firefox freezes sometime on attempt to move using mouse
Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS, IceWM. Latest FF downloaded from mozilla website. System does not receive any mouse click (Left, R.). I can't switch to another application (using mouse or keyboard). I had to close FF using Alt-F4 key. System works usualy since then. Any idea please ?
Code:
maketopsite@ub:~$ apulse /media/maketopsite/tmp/ff/firefox/firefox --profile ~/delete
[GFX1-]: GFX: RenderThread detected a device reset in PostUpdate
maketopsite@ub:~$
I have several ideas. I'm not sure how good they are, but they're what I would likely do.
Check the log files, particularly /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Admittedly, a long shot, since oftentimes a freeze also freezes will prevent error messages because, well, the system/application is frozen.
Try opening Firefox from a terminal. Perhaps it will throw some error message to the terminal. Also a long shot, for the reason mentioned above.
Install another browser from the Ubuntu repos (Brave? Vivaldi?) and see whether you get the same issue.
Remove Firefox, then install the version from the Ubuntu repos and see whether you get the same issue.
Have you tried dropping to a tty terminal and executing the free -h command to check how much free memory that you have, as this seems to me to be possible case of a simple issues such as low system memory resources.
The only suggestion I can come up with at this point is check the repos and see whether they have the same version of FF. If they don't, perhaps you might try FF from the repos, in case it is a version-related issue.
Have you tried dropping to a tty terminal and executing the free -h command to check how much free memory that you have, as this seems to me to be possible case of a simple issues such as low system memory resources.
I watch free RAM almost constantly using conky when something strange happens and there is always enough free RAM. PC would become unresponsive for many hours in other case.
The only suggestion I can come up with at this point is check the repos and see whether they have the same version of FF. If they don't, perhaps you might try FF from the repos, in case it is a version-related issue.
Thank you that's good thing to do. But I would like to use different firefox binaries for different tasks. So I need at least one downloaded FF version.
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