Package: firefox
Version: 62.0.2-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Since some recent update (within the last week) firefox is behaving
completely maniac on one of my computers. I have already removed
all of ~/.mozilla, started firefox with 
        MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS=1 firefox
no extensions installed, all clean slate. Still, even the most simple
pages don't load. The typical output of top is:
  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU  %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
 8666 norbert   20   0 1617680 216316 101096 R  70.4   1.3   2:38.40 Web Content
 8855 norbert   20   0 1509408 147020  69056 R  70.1   0.9   1:18.98 Web Content
 8573 norbert   20   0 1637532 227256 105332 R  67.1   1.4   2:39.35 Web Content
 8520 norbert   20   0 2010728 265448 145644 D  42.9   1.6   1:16.82 firefox

As said, removing all extensions, plugins, everything and still the
browser behaves completely crazy.

What else then fully removing .mozilla and starting without plugins can
be done to get it back? It doesn't crash, just eats all the CPU and
doesn't display anything.

Thanks

Norbert

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-- Addons package information

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.10 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages firefox depends on:
ii  debianutils               4.8.6
ii  fontconfig                2.13.1-1
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.30.0-1
ii  libc6                     2.27-6
ii  libcairo-gobject2         1.15.12-1
ii  libcairo2                 1.15.12-1
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.12.10-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.110-3
ii  libevent-2.1-6            2.1.8-stable-4
ii  libffi6                   3.2.1-8
ii  libfontconfig1            2.13.1-1
ii  libfreetype6              2.8.1-2
ii  libgcc1                   1:8.2.0-7
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.38.0+dfsg-6
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.58.1-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                3.24.0-3
ii  libjsoncpp1               1.7.4-3
ii  libnspr4                  2:4.20-1
ii  libnss3                   2:3.39-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.42.4-3
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.25.2-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-5
ii  libstdc++6                8.2.0-7
ii  libvpx5                   1.7.0-3
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.6-1
ii  libx11-xcb1               2:1.6.6-1
ii  libxcb-shm0               1.13-3
ii  libxcb1                   1.13-3
ii  libxcomposite1            1:0.4.4-2
ii  libxdamage1               1:1.1.4-3
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxfixes3                1:5.0.3-1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.10-1
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.5-1
ii  procps                    2:3.3.15-2
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.11.dfsg-1

Versions of packages firefox recommends:
ii  libavcodec-extra57  7:3.4.3-1
ii  libavcodec58        7:4.0.2-2

Versions of packages firefox suggests:
ii  fonts-lmodern          2.004.5-5
ii  fonts-stix [otf-stix]  1.1.1-4
ii  libcanberra0           0.30-6
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.16-2
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.24.32-3
ii  pulseaudio             12.2-2

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