On 2024-07-19 at 10:34, Gary Dale wrote: > On 2024-07-18 09:52, Gary Dale wrote:
>> Thanks for the tips guys, but I'm not going to switch to XFCE, I'm >> using an old AMD graphics card, it's a desktop machine, and the >> problem isn't specific to PDFs - although that seems to be one of >> the major triggers. >> >> My system has been upgrading from earlier versions of Debian since >> Potato. I've been on Trixie since it became the new testing. This >> crashing of Firefox is a new issue - had few problems with Trixie >> before that. >> >> I'm beginning to suspect it may be related to my recent >> introduction of a Pi-Hole into my network. Could it be a problem >> for Firefox when it gets a 0.0.0.0 address returned on a DNS >> lookup? > > Well, I can confirm it's not the Pi-Hole. Took it out of the DNS > chain and Firefox is still crashing frequently. In fact, it's worse > today. Now it crashes when I'm on Facebook and scrolling down using > the mouse wheel. What kind of crashes are we talking about? I think there may be an 'about:crashes' or similar type of page built in to Firefox, which could give information about what it's seen happen. If it's memory-access-related, there might be benefit to trying to e.g. run under valgrind, intentionally reproduce a crash, and see what that tool reports. Then again, Firefox is a sufficiently complex app that that might not be fruitful. Have you tried running any hardware-error checking tools, e.g. one of the memtest suites? Crashes that frequent (with software, versions, and data which other people do not reproduce the problem with) suggest a possible hardware issue to my mind, although if nothing else is exhibiting visible issues that makes the hardware a less likely culprit. Is there any possibility that something in the library/etc. stack which Firefox sits on top of may be unreliable, or at least be of different versions from those which the people not observing the problem are using? One obvious candidate would probably be the graphics stack (driver, firmware, etc.), but that's not necessarily the only possibility. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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