[Bug 2026309] Re: Unprovoked shutdowns of Firefox

[shanen (Shannon Jacobs)]

Thanks for asking, but a year later? Some sort of anniversary
celebration? I don't even remember what that bug was about. The new
problem is that Firefox just fails to show up... But I'm pretty sure it
isn't the firefox package, but one of the lower-level display packages.

When I "upgraded" to Numbat things got much worse than with the previous
version, where the main problems were just cursor things. I spent a
while trying to report the new problems, but eventually gave up and
settled for tedious workarounds. The worst new problem appears to
involve initialization of the virtual displays. If the initialization
succeeds, which happens rarely, then everything is okay. If not, then I
have developed a long serious of workarounds. Sparing you the details,
but it starts with <Ctrl><Alt><F1> to get a new window where I can
resize in two steps... If that doesn't work...

Nothing I can recommend to anyone who doesn't have a hacking background.
I see it as a kind of mental exercise, but not a system that I could use
or recommend for anything serious.

Mozilla has other problems, but I think the main one remains the
financial model. The things Mozilla implements are NOT things I want,
but there is no way to donate for the features I actually do want.
Unable to remember the last time anything in Firefox changed in a way
that I would have been glad to have contributed to the change...

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