Firefox & Thunderbird Instability in Xenial

[José Jorge Enríquez]

I've been using Xenial on my laptop for some time now and haven't seen any
firefox crash yet. That said, I use this laptop mostly on Saturdays (for
about 6 continuous hours, firefox almost always open).
I don't use Thunderbird though, could it be something related to
Thunderbird?


On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Richard Elkins <richard.elkins at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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>:
>
>> 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>
>>>> 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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