On 2025-05-12, at 9:27 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 08:33 -0700, Ken Cunningham wrote: >> I reinstalled Firefox 138, and removed the “.mozilla” directory, >> and launched it from a terminal. >> >> Using the MATE desktop, it launches and works (slowly). > > As I expected. And, yes, Firefox consumes quite some CPU power. I had never tried firefox 138 with the MATE desktop before, so can't know if removing the .mozilla directory was part of the magic or not, but easy to do. I suspect removing the .mozilla directory was not the issue, as it still crashes with LXDE as below, but as the window now fills in with an image before the crash using the menus, cannot know with certainty. > >> Using LXDE, this time I see content in the windows. But as soon as >> I click on a menu I get a hard desktop lockup, my remote ssh session >> disconnects, and the windfarm fans go to 100%. >> >> No messages in the terminal window. >> >> So then I power cycle. >> >> >> I like MATE anyway — it’s just a bit slower in use that LXDE I find. >> But better than crashing. > > I wouldn't really expect the window manager to have any impact on how > Firefox behaves. Did you try tweaking the settings (GPU acceleration etc)? Yes, me neither. But there we are. Also a bad crash using FIrefox with OpenBox. Only MATE is working for me -- for whatever reason. While in MATE, I opened Firefox 138 and disabled HW acceleration, and the rebooted into LXDE. Firefox 138 had the same bad crash (lockup, have to power cycle to restart) as usual. So -- more data points for folks to compare to what they see. Ken
