firefox

[Jack L.]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 10:51 AM Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 1:29 AM Jack L. <xxjack12xx at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 1:32 PM Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> wrote:
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>> > @lbutlr wrote on 2019/08/12 07:08:
>> > > On 11 Aug 2019, at 20:29, bruce <bruce at hawaii-pacific.com> wrote:
>> > >> I have tried firefox.  It crashes regularly
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>> > > That doesn’t sound right. If Firefox is crashing a lot there is something not quite right with your system or install.
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>> > I am using Seamonkey on everyday basis. Sometimes my computer is running
>> > 20+ days without reboot and Seamonkey running all the time with 5
>> > windows and total count of 200+ openned tabs. No crashes at all.
>> > Firefox crashes instantly after start (even if I delete its profile)
>> > Palemoon, Qupzilla, Iridium crashes few times a day.
>> > LibreOffice, Gimp and other apps are running fine. Only browsers are so
>> > unstable these days. And as you can read I am not alone with this kind
>> > of experience so I don't think it's just my computer problem.
>> >
>> > Miroslav Lachman
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>> yup, they don't make browsers like they used to
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> I'll probably regret opening this potential can of worms, but I find these reports of instability in Firefox surprising. I have used Firfox as my web browser on FreeBSD for many year, going back to at least Firefox v3 and probably v2. I can't say I've never had it crash, but in the past year I can't recall a single crash on FreeBSD. It has been rock solid. So why is it failing or some people? (I'll note in passing that Firefox has been somewhat less stable on Windows 7 where it seems to crash every couple of weeks.
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> Possibilities include hardware, especially graphics, web sites visited, and Firefox configuration. Lots of tabs may be an issue as I try to keep my open tabs under 20.
>  I can't imagine trying to deal with 200+, but it must eat a lot of resources. That may be tied to the failures reported.

My experience with firefox is it gets slower and slower and slower
until it's practically unusable until it's restarted (even having only
the gmail tab open for days)