Firefox on 16.04 crashes over and over and over

[Jim]

On 07/23/2018 04:56 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I'm getting multiple crashes daily on two different instances ("profiles")
> in Firefox, and on multiple machines, and have been for a month or so.  It
> asks me for information to send with the crash report, which I did at
> first, but I've given up.
> 
> About the only thing even slightly special about my useage is that I have
> multiple tabs, and sometimes multiple windows.  The crashes come most often
> when I'm not even using the computer, but come back to find a crash dialog
> on the screen.
> 
> Anyone else having this?
> 
> Anyone care to suggest other browsers?
> 
> ++ kevin
> 

I use both Firefox and Chrome. I can't say that Firefox never crashes 
for me but nothing like you are experiencing. In fact I can't remember 
the last time it die crash.

Try starting Firefox from a terminal, maybe some useful info will show 
up there.

regards,  Jim