In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox crashes, Apostolos Syropoulos...:
Yesterday I upgraded and still Firefoxcrashes.
The mailing list archives seem to be missing some email threads, so
please forgive me for having to ask something you might have mentioned
previously: did you increase the amount of swap on your system, as
mentioned in the 2019.04 release notes:
http://docs.openindiana.org/release-notes/2019.04-release-notes/
Michal Nowak posted about this back on April 28, 2019:
1) Memory usage is higher.
Make sure that you have enough swap. If Firefox suddenly stops, pkg or
Thunderbird crash or other processes report memory errors or fork()
problems, check if you have enough swap available for reservation by:
$ swap -sh
Optionally extend swap to match your memory requirements, e.g.:
$ zfs get volsize rpool/swap
$ pfexec zfs set volsize=24g rpool/swap
$ pfexec reboot
Personally, I had to extend swap space to 24 GB. My physical memory to swap
ratio is now 2:3.
You can limit Firefox memory usage by following (2) below.
2) As Firefox uses parallel threads, peak CPU load may be higher (though the
benefit is that things get done faster).
By default Firefox uses up to 4 content threads. You can limit CPU and
memory usage by explicitly lowering the amount of content threads used:
Preferences -> General -> Performance -> uncheck "Use recommended
performance settings" -> set "Content process limit" to lower number
Beyond that, I've found that the "Refresh Firefox" procedure has fixed
firefox issues I've had in the past:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings
Be sure you read through all of that though, as the "refresh" procedure
creates a new profile for you and basically resets firefox to defaults.
You will lose many customizations, but if the refresh fixes the crashes,
you could systematically re-apply your custom settings and test, to see
if you can determine if it's a particular setting (or more likely,
add-on) that is responsible for most of the crashes.
Just as a point of reference: I did increase the swap on my workstation
back in April, before installing the updated firefox, and I don't have
very many firefox add-ons installed (uBlock Origin and Firefox
Multi-Account Containers are the two main ones, there are some lesser ones
too). I run firefox with 20 or more tabs open, and I've only had it crash
once in the last 6 months. That's part of why I'm at least a little
suspicious that it may be something corrupted in your profile or with one
of your add-ons. The refresh procedure would determine pretty quickly if
a fresh profile is more stable. The down-side is that you have to make
many customizations again.
Tim
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Tim Mooney [email protected]
Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure /
Division of Information Technology / 701-231-1076 (Voice)
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164
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