I tested this yesterday with Ubuntu 18.10, and Firefox did crash anymore. So this can be tagged as solved. I do not know the first fixed version though.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1784349 Title: SEGV during startup on Power 8 system Status in Mozilla Firefox: Unknown Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Trying to start Firefox 61 on Power 8 terminates with the segmentation fault below. firefox[155767]: unhandled signal 11 at 00007402b3100060 nip 0000090b2d83e9ec lr 0000090b2d83ed1c code 2 0x000000010000e96c in arena_t::SplitRun (this=0x7ffff7700000, aRun=0x7ffff4a10000, aSize=1048576, aLarge=false, aZero=false) at /build/firefox-aPxmMP/firefox-61.0.1+build1/memory/build/mozjemalloc.cpp To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/1784349/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

