Firefox on 16.04 crashes over and over and over

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 17:43:16 -0500, Chris wrote:
>Why not go through and start with Add-ons disabled (safe mode). If it
>doesn't crash then restart, disable all extensions then manually enable
>them until you get the crash. Have you looked at the output of the
>crash report that FF generates to see if it gives you a clue?

"firefox --safe-mode" not necessarily is enough, it could be better to
to use "firefox --ProfileManager" to create a new profile. However,
using firefox with add-ons and/or themes ensures that soon or later an
update will cause issues, but even if we should use plain firefox with
all that privacy breaches unmodified by about:config, for some time
past firefox is unstable. Firefox isn't the first clumsy browser that
became unstable. QupZilla, now Falkon, failed, too, but became usable
again. It's not an Ubuntu issue, I'm experiencing firfox as a PITA on
Arch Linux. In my experiences Falkon/QupZilla, Pale Moon and Chrome
work more reliable, unfortunately for videos Chrome seems to be the
best choice. Ice Cat also works more reliable, but using it anyway is a
PITA, since it's impossible to get rid of all the "Hidden HTML detected"
annoyances. Even when visiting https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/IceCat
the user needs to decide, to reveal the hidden HTML or not by a mouse
click.