[Bug 2020078] Re: firefox-snap causes system-wide freeze

[Luke Goshen]

I have Ubuntu 22.04 installed on my system with 16GB RAM and 1TB disk
space.

Running a large number of resource-heavy apps/processes does (and
should, logically) cause system freezes/hangups, after which the system
must be rebooted.

But when running Firefox, no matter how low the resource consumption
from other background apps, the system freezes with a high probability,
sometimes with as low as 3 open tabs. If browser cache is a problem, I
tend to browse in Private Mode most often, yet that does not stop a
system crash.

I have kept track of CPU consumption in the System Monitor, and my
system has crashed several times without there having been more than 20%
RAM usage. Firefox also doesn't have any crash reports from these
instances. I have tried several fixes suggested by Mozilla (turning off
hardware acceleration etc) but none have resulted in any improvements in
my situation. I remember running 4-5 windows each with at least 5 tabs
without ever encountering a crash. Please help me fix this issue.

Please find the last few lines from the system log above. I forced
shutdown after the last line using the power button because of a system
freeze.

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