Firefox & Thunderbird Instability in Xenial

[Richard Elkins]

Hi Jordan,

The only files being updated by Firefox and Thunderbird are in /tmp and 
$HOME/{.cache,.mozilla,.thunderbird}.  Since I am filling out crash 
reports daily that go to Mozilla, I'll assume that they will contact me.

I switched to Midori and Claws-mail as an experiment.  Stable although 
not as feature rich.

I also tried an alternate distro (Ubuntu MATE) on a 3rd machine (AMD64 
type with lots of RAM).  I get occasional crashes there too. My gut 
tells me that Mozilla common code for Firefox and Thunderbird has some 
environment nuances if you aren't seeing it too.  This is the first time 
that I have ever had trouble with Firefox and Thunderbird.  I may try 
Chrome too.

Richard

On 05/28/2016 11:32 AM, JMZ wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> Odd idea: have you thought of using 'journalctl' to see if any of the 
> main configuration files are being deleted by accident?  The --since 
> switch will let you narrow down the amount of information to a 
> specific date range.  Often I have a script-in-a-script etc. in my 
> crontab queue, and conflicting commands cause issues.
>
> Thanks
> Jordan
>
> On 05/28/2016 12:11 PM, Richard Elkins wrote:
>> Is anyone else having issues with Firefox and Thunderbird on Xubuntu 
>> Xenial?  I am getting random crashes almost every day from one or the 
>> other, leading me to believe that it is a set of issues in common 
>> code.  I reported it here: 
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1581569
>> and in the Mozilla pop-up whenever I get it.
>>
>> My 14.04 server has no such Mozilla issues even though the Firefox & 
>> Thunderbird versions are the same as what's on the 16.04 system.
>>
>> If anyone else is having such an experience, please mark that "it 
>> affects me" at the bug report.
>>
>> If anyone has a work-around, please add a comment to the bug report.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>
>