I’m also experiencing sporadic freezing issues again as well. For me, the issue is on-again, off-again for weeks now after experimenting with different acceleration options. Some problem correlations are multi-monitors, video streaming, and problems when attempting to open (or switching to) new tabs or instances. Can anyone please post any recent core dumps from journalctl? I still don’t have any items in about:crashes. Maybe (if not hw-related), explore UI/theming issues again?
a recent core dump of mine
systemd-coredump[31550]: [🡕] Process 31548 (firefox) of user 1000 dumped core.
I’ve problem with Firefox
Its non functional after latest update.
I could tray reinstalling, starting with debugger mode and so on but unfortunately couldn`t get any visual piece of Firefox. Its looks like frezed window contain noting. Catches other window’s visuals. Can be related X11 maybe. Because its renders nothing.
Nov 20 14:01:07 kernel: tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: can't request region for resource [mem 0x4f76f000-0x4f772fff]
Nov 20 14:01:07 bluetoothd[484]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() Failed to init vcp plugin
Nov 20 14:01:07 bluetoothd[484]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() Failed to init mcp plugin
Nov 20 14:01:07 bluetoothd[484]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() Failed to init bap plugin
Nov 20 14:01:17 lightdm[729]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
You know what’s funny about my situation when ff decides to randomly stop? My old friend, the frozen-window desktop snake effect is back if new apps are launched and dragged on the current workspace. I missed seeing this from back in the day, it’s a cool effect.
I’ve good news! Firefox running normally now!
Firefox begin to run around first working day stress. Great… I need its extension you know life changer.
I didn’t even restart but it is in well situation now. Thanks for any help.
Nice to see the edit there by @alkl but my issue may be unrelated to highlighting text, but ultimately with the same freezing outcome. Disabling hw acceleration completely is a fine workaround for now.
Also, I figured out a reproduction. When hw acceleration is enabled, and ensuring window grouping is disabled in xfce’s window panel settings, then in ff select: hamburger → downloads, and with the firefox downloads window (labeled as “Library”) visible in the taskbar, keep fastly left-clicking it (there in the taskbar) to keep minimizing/unminimizing it until the entire window fails to paint, causing ff to freeze entirely. For me, it’s around the ~7th unminimized click before the window fails to paint.
No, Never had this problem on either 106.5 or 107.0, On Desktop I7, still have the NVidia Hardware acceleration bug, Turn it off or crash, and an older AMD K8/Radeon Laptop is the problem with Firefox not loading at all then finding it’s running 3 times in task manager, kill 2 below the top Firefox and then it loads, really annoying to do this every time i need/use Firefox, but again not the problem listed.
For me that freezing was instantly, when trying to Copy a password from Bitwarden (Firefox Addon) to the Clipboard, while playing a video. The entire Firefox process would come unresponsive. (Not even clickable, would crash with Alt + F4)
I also experienced an issue, where Firefox somehow caused the whole desktop environment getting unresponsive (idk if this is the one you all are referring to in this thread), only the mouse was working. Haven’t happened since I applied the libx11 patch.
Now the only thing left is that Firefox windows / tabs would come unresponsive (UI element not clickable / closing a tab would leave an empty space) at some point.
It seems that there are two - three issues at play at the same time, at least for me.
I suffered the same problem for ~2 weeks and now found a solution to what had been the issue - on my machine. Since this thread helped me a lot, I’ll post it here.
Deactivating hardware-acceleration did not help, so I focused on potential file manager issue by running from a terminal
❯ thunar
Failed to activate service 'org.gtk.vfs.AfcVolumeMonitor': timed out (service_start_timeout=120000ms) (g-dbus-error-quark, 20)
That service is from the package gvfs-afc and manually starting it revealed
❯ /usr/lib/gvfs-afc-volume-monitor
/usr/lib/gvfs-afc-volume-monitor: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
So, pacman -S openssl-1.1 solved all freezes/lags for me. It looks like the openssl package internally switched version from 1.1 to 3.0. The gvfs-afc package should better upgrade or depend on openssl-1.1 package instead.
Interesting analysis, thanks for sharing that. “openssl-1.1” is required by steam-native-runtime so looks like it stayed on my system (in addition to “openssl” v3.) Thankfully I don’t have Apple devices so I also safely blew away “gvfs-afc” without breaking the entire xfce desktop