After the last update I have consistent, repeatable tab crashes with particular sites in Firefox and Thunderbird crashes whenever I try to write or reply to an e-mail.
Firefox
Some sites seem to always crash; others are a bit mixed, e.g. clicking the link to Welsh language in the Wikipedia article Colloquial Welsh morphology caused a tab crash. Wikipedia talk pages also cause a tab crash.
I’ve tried creating a fresh profile and downloading the binary and running that with a new profile, but the results are the same. The Flatpak version has no problems.
Attempting to open the browser console (Ctrl+Shift+J or from menu) results in an immediate crash, but only with the installed FF.
With tab crashes I get output about “Channel errors” repeated several times, but the bug reports mentioning this all seem inconclusive.
Terminal: (repeated a few times)
###!!! [Parent][PContentParent] Error: Send(msgname=PHttpChannel::Msg_DeleteSelf) Channel error: cannot send/recv
journalctl: core dumps ends with…
Stack trace of thread 573370:
#0 0x00007fcff0ab25e2 n/a (libfreetype.so.6 + 0x345e2)
#1 0x00007fcff0a91fc9 FT_Load_Glyph (libfreetype.so.6 + 0x13fc9)
#2 0x00007fcff0ae7ee9 n/a (libfreetype.so.6 + 0x69ee9)
#3 0x00007fcff0a92269 FT_Load_Glyph (libfreetype.so.6 + 0x14269)
#4 0x00007fcfe9d55c27 n/a (/home/sean/bin/firefox/libxul.so + 0x56c5c27)
ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
Browser console crash produces a similar error.
Terminal:
ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 577851
ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child
ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal...
Exiting due to channel error.
[repeated many times]
Thunderbird
Disabling all add-ons doesn’t help, but a new profile does. Maybe some change has triggered a problem in what is quite an old profile.
Considering I monitor about 10 accounts & have lots of filters transitioning will be painful, but doable. For anyone dealing with this, the command-line switch -no-remote
allows running separate instances of FF/TB with different profiles.