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Firefox crashing on startup in 16.04 rc / dev

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      killerbee
      last edited by 6 Jul 2018, 20:21

      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
        last edited by 6 Jul 2018, 20:24

        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 7 Jul 2018, 19:08

          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 7 Jul 2018, 19:22 7 Jul 2018, 19:12

            @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 7 Jul 2018, 19:24

              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 7 Jul 2018, 19:25

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

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                  TartanSpartan
                  last edited by TartanSpartan 7 Jul 2018, 19:53 7 Jul 2018, 19:52

                  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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