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Repeated and continuous crashes of Firefox
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Mario Marietto
2025-01-16 20:00:56 UTC
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Hello.

Suddenly, while using Firefox, my system (FreeBSD 14.2, but 14.1 did the
same) while I'm surfing in some websites (they are always different) closes
and the system hangs for a few seconds and then reboots. Top reveals that
for some time Firefox eats more than 100% of the cpu's power. Crashes
generate a lot of core files. I've added some of them in this email. I hope
you can inspect inside them to understand why and to suggest a solution
because I'm really tired of these crashes.

caja.core
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p5Ut97VmrE_VJeBZHD5nuc27kEyhTFM1/view?usp=drive_web>
chrome.core
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pXcNUV5ck3eU-FfJ74-rQ8jJkcOzZCIh/view?usp=drive_web>
firefox.core
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jZFLo5y-6rHyG-Vz8SquOnJkq4Sz5CV7/view?usp=drive_web>

Thanks.

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Tomoaki AOKI
2025-01-16 22:45:04 UTC
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On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:00:56 +0100
Mario Marietto <***@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Suddenly, while using Firefox, my system (FreeBSD 14.2, but 14.1 did the
> same) while I'm surfing in some websites (they are always different) closes
> and the system hangs for a few seconds and then reboots. Top reveals that
> for some time Firefox eats more than 100% of the cpu's power. Crashes
> generate a lot of core files. I've added some of them in this email. I hope
> you can inspect inside them to understand why and to suggest a solution
> because I'm really tired of these crashes.
>
> caja.core
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p5Ut97VmrE_VJeBZHD5nuc27kEyhTFM1/view?usp=drive_web>
> chrome.core
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pXcNUV5ck3eU-FfJ74-rQ8jJkcOzZCIh/view?usp=drive_web>
> firefox.core
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jZFLo5y-6rHyG-Vz8SquOnJkq4Sz5CV7/view?usp=drive_web>
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Mario.

I've not experiencing the same issue.
Instead, maybe Firefox is causing compiz 0.8.18 (not in-tree, obtained
from [1]) to crash, on several versions of Firefox. Once happened, the
computer becomes unresponsive until core dump for compiz finishes, but
does not hard reboot like you until now.

Currently, the crash happenes almost only when I switched tabs or
just mouse pointer is on any of tabs. But not always (usually 1 to 3
times/day).

Why I described "maybe" is because still I'm not 100% sure, as Firefox
is my primary browser and always running, so never tested heavy apps
like Chromium and Libreoffice alone could cause crashes, too or not.
I need to take time for the tests before filing PR for clarifying, so
not yet.

[1] https://github.com/kdeguchi/compiz-reloaded-ports

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