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    Firefox crashing on startup in 16.04 rc / dev

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        killerbee
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        So i installed the deb from apt repos which crashes immediately on startup.
        After some digging I found:
        https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1711337

        The above bug report and a workaround with a deb from

        https://www.dropbox.com/s/ogdut56m2i0k0t9/firefox_59.0.2%2Bbuild1-0ubuntu0.16.04.3_armhf.deb?dl=0

        firefox starts up, but is quite unstable....

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          UniSuperBox
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          Looks like that bug is upstream from even Ubuntu, so we'll need to wait for a fix. Thanks for the report.

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            TartanSpartan
            last edited by

            Please describe the unstable behaviour? I'm looking forward to stable Firefox action on Xenial.

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              killerbee @TartanSpartan
              last edited by killerbee

              @tartanspartan Issues are volatile crashes when displaying websites (might be flash related)

              and editing the adressbar entry causes additional (sometimes empty, sometimes mimicing the UI) firefox windows to appear....
              in rare cases it even crashed the session, forcing restart of ubport UI

              Also to note that most GTK apps are creating a new window when clicking on a menu and showing the entries of the menu in this window...

              I did not intensively test firefox though....

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                TartanSpartan
                last edited by

                Thank you, good to know. I guess I will wait for a stable fix for it to hit ARMHF builds.

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                  killerbee @TartanSpartan
                  last edited by

                  @tartanspartan ANy clue how to trigger bug fix activities on this topic?

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                    TartanSpartan
                    last edited by TartanSpartan

                    Well from that link @UniSuperBox shared it looks like the Ubuntu/Mozilla devs for ARMHF hardware are at last aware of the issue and working on it for those architectures.

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