Firefox & Thunderbird Instability in Xenial

[Richard Elkins]

Thanks, Florian.  Will do.  Wish me luck!

On 06/09/2016 03:32 PM, Florian Coste wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> I'm using Firefox everyday with Xenial and I don't notice random 
> crashes. I have already seen some crashes with Firefox with other 
> release of Xubuntu (14.04) in the past. But with firefox 46, I don't 
> have experimented frequent crashes...
>
> Today, Firefox was updated on Xenial, maybe you could try the new 
> version 47.
>
> Florian
>
> 2016-06-09 21:52 GMT+02:00 Richard Elkins <richard.elkins at gmail.com 
> <mailto:richard.elkins at gmail.com>>:
>
>     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.
>
>
>
>
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