Firefox & Thunderbird Instability in Xenial

[Robert Streeter]

It could also be an extension that is causing the apps to crash randomly.
On Jun 9, 2016 5:36 PM, "José Jorge Enríquez" <josejorge at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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