Kernel Panics With Firefox 63.x

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:44:04 +0000, B J wrote:
> I recently upgraded my system and that included Firefox.  It's been
> troublesome ever since.  Often, it would crash for no apparent reason
> and this morning, it started taking down my entire system.  The result
> was that my machine would have to reboot.
> 
> Now I can't use Firefox at all without having my machine going into a
> kernel panic.

Could you get any useful information from the kernel dump?



> My machine is more than 10 years old and I think it runs 32 bits.  The
> OS is FreeBSD 11.2 and I'm using Mate as a desktop.

Same here - the machine is quite old and runs 32 bit, which
is intended (2 GB RAM, no requirement for 64 bit at all,
trouble with nVidia driver). Needless to say, I'm _not_
using Firefox on that particular machine (I prefer Opera).



> Any suggestions?  Thanks.

Others than replacing Firefox with a better browser? ;-)

What you could do: Re-install Firefox (most recent version).
Also make sure all of its dependencies are up to date. In
worst case, it's "just" a memory leak.

Check if the Firefox + system crashes happen when visiting
"complicated pages" (i. e., those involving lots of JS, or
those containing FLV, MP4 or WebM media content).


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Polytropon
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