Package: firefox-esr
Version: 102.13.0esr-1~deb11u1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: echar...@vtluug.org
Dear Maintainer,
When attemting to open atom feeds (which firefox no longer can read,
despite them being xml), the download prompt suggests opening the file
in firefox. If you leave the box checked for "always open files of this
type", firefox will open tabs endlessly, making it unusable, until you
kill the application or delete the atom file. It does not result in
excess memory usage, although it will pin firefox-esr cpu usage, thus
the system will never recover itself, despite it appearing to be a fork
bomb.
This prompt changes the setting under about:preferences>Applications,
s.t. "Atom Syndication feed" says "Use firefox web browser (Default)".
As a mitigation, I have changed it to "save file". this prevents firefox
from locking up or prompting the user to open the file in firefox.
Ideally firefox would open atom and rss files as plain text and render
them; I don't know why this is not the behaviour. But firefox should
stop suggesting itself as the way to open atom files if it will do this.
I suspect this is an upstream bug, but I don't have the resources to
validate that at the moment. Apologies if this is a duplicate report.
Thanks,
echarlie
-- Package-specific info:
-- Addons package information
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.7
APT prefers oldstable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500,
'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-23-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages firefox-esr depends on:
ii debianutils 4.11.2
ii fontconfig 2.13.1-4.2
ii libasound2 1.2.4-1.1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.36.0-2
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u6
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-5
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-5
ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.24-0+deb11u1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.110-6
ii libevent-2.1-7 2.1.12-stable-1
ii libffi7 3.3-6
ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-4.2
ii libfreetype6 2.10.4+dfsg-1+deb11u1
ii libgcc-s1 10.2.1-6
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.2+dfsg-1+deb11u1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.66.8-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.24-4+deb11u3
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.46.2-3
ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-6
ii libvpx6 1.9.0-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.7.2-1+deb11u1
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.7.2-1+deb11u1
ii libxcb-shm0 1.14-3
ii libxcb1 1.14-3
ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.5-1
ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.5-2
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1.1
ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.3-2
ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1
ii libxtst6 2:1.2.3-1
ii procps 2:3.3.17-5
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2+deb11u2
Versions of packages firefox-esr recommends:
ii libavcodec-extra58 [libavcodec58] 7:4.3.6-0+deb11u1
Versions of packages firefox-esr suggests:
ii fonts-lmodern 2.004.5-6.1
ii fonts-stix [otf-stix] 1.1.1-4.1
ii libcanberra0 0.30-7
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.18.3-6+deb11u3
ii pulseaudio 14.2-2
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