Bug#998108: firefox freezes shortly after start

2021-12-03 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
I just had one occasion of the "freezing" problem... but it was the first time since we got 94.0-2. Also it didn't occur short after start, but quite some time after browsing the very same websites. But the symptoms were as described in message #15 (i.e. that loading wheel). So there may be

Bug#998108: firefox freezes shortly after start

2021-11-25 Thread dirdi
After the upgrade to 94.0-2, I still experienced some crashes, but disabling hardware acceleration (about:preferences > General > Performance > uncheck both checkboxes and set processing limit to 8) fixed it for me.

Bug#998108: firefox freezes shortly after start

2021-11-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 11, ‍小太 wrote: > If you open /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so in a hex editor and go to file offset > 0x46a4703, you can perform a find and replace with the below hex strings: > find:498B5C2408904889DFFF157FBD9703EBF5 > replace: 4D8B6C2408904C89EFFF157FBD9703EBDA Great work! Quick one

Bug#998108: firefox freezes shortly after start

2021-11-11 Thread ‍小太
On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:06:44 +1100 =?UTF-8?B?4oCN5bCP5aSq?= wrote: > So either the change needs to be backported to v94, or we'll just have to wait > until v95 (or compile the browser ourselves) I was a bit adventurous and tried doing a binary patch on the current debian version (94.0-1), and

Bug#998108: firefox freezes shortly after start

2021-11-11 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2021-11-11 at 23:06 +1100, ‍小太 wrote: > So either the change needs to be backported to v94 It seems Mike has already been active in that bug (and even found it himself a ~month ago ^^) and indicated he'll backport it (AFAIU). Which I hope really happens... I know there is no official

Bug#998108: firefox freezes shortly after start

2021-11-11 Thread ‍小太
I narrowed down the freeze to the cubeb pulse code (part of the audio library firefox uses), and I found that it was actually fixed almost a month ago: https://github.com/mozilla/cubeb-pulse-rs/pull/72 It's already been merged into firefox on-track for v95:

Bug#998108: firefox freezes shortly after start

2021-11-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 06, dirdi wrote: > As a first step it would be good to have a method - e.g. a crafted > HTML page - to crash firefox instantly and reproducible. This would > enable us to bisect the changes between 93.0-1 and 93.0-1+b1. I do not think that this would be possible because after restarting

Bug#998108: firefox freezes shortly after start

2021-11-06 Thread dirdi
Package: firefox Version: 94.0-1 Followup-For: Bug #998108 X-Debbugs-Cc: deb...@dirdi.name As a first step it would be good to have a method - e.g. a crafted HTML page - to crash firefox instantly and reproducible. This would enable us to bisect the changes between 93.0-1 and 93.0-1+b1.

Bug#998108: firefox freezes shortly after start

2021-11-05 Thread Adon Shapiro
Hi, I was also experiencing this problem and was monitoring this bug report for potential solutions, but the problem seems to have recently disappeared. I haven't experienced it since yesterday (2021-11-05) even on sites that I knew to trigger it previously. Like everyone else, the problem

Bug#998108: firefox freezes shortly after start

2021-11-03 Thread David Heidelberg
HW: Intel i7-7500U; 16G RAM; GPU HD Graphics 620 Debian: unstable System: amd64 Session: GNOME with Wayland. Firefox: 93-b1 - 94 Random freezes. 10 seconds up to X minutes, depending on the websites tab opened. Best regards David Heidelberg

Bug#998108: firefox freezes shortly after start

2021-11-03 Thread Yuri D'Elia
Package: firefox Version: 94.0-1 Followup-For: Bug #998108 Same here, problems started with 93.0-1+b1, and are also present on FF 94. Firefox hangs at random times, doesn't quit properly preventing normal restart, doesn't recognize audio devices correctly. As others noted, FF hangs almost

Processed: Re: Bug#998108: firefox freezes shortly after start

2021-11-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > found -1 firefox/94.0-1 Bug #998108 [firefox] firefox freezes shortly after start Marked as found in versions firefox/94.0-1. -- 998108: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=998108 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems

Bug#998108: firefox freezes shortly after start

2021-11-03 Thread Dmitry Shachnev
Control: found -1 firefox/94.0-1 Hi all, On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 03:04:01PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Package: firefox > Version: 93.0-1+b1 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > Hey. > > Since about yesterday (possibly since the rebuilt package came in) >

Bug#998108: firefox freezes shortly after start

2021-11-02 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sat, 30 Oct 2021 15:04:01 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Since about yesterday (possibly since the rebuilt package came in) > firefox freezes shortly after being started. > There is no high CPU activity then, it just takes no input anymore > (no keyboard, no mouse clicks). > This

Bug#998108: firefox freezes shortly after start

2021-11-02 Thread Eugen Dedu
On Sat, 30 Oct 2021 20:33:31 +0200 Olivier Allard-Jacquin wrote: According to "strace" command, this is look faulted tab open nvidia library, so maybe issue is linker to video acceleration. I do not have nvidia, still I have this problem.

Bug#998108: firefox freezes shortly after start

2021-10-30 Thread Olivier Allard-Jacquin
Hi, same issue here: - AMD64 install - Debian testing + firefox from unstable After 93.0-1+b1 install, firefox freeze on some web sites, specially when new tab open a new link. According to "strace" command, this is look faulted tab open nvidia library, so maybe

Bug#998108: firefox freezes shortly after start

2021-10-30 Thread Philipp Huebner
Hi, I am affected by the same problem. After downgrading to firefox=93.0-1 from snapshot.debian.org the problem is gone. Regards, -- .''`. Philipp Huebner : :' : pgp fp: 6719 25C5 B8CD E74A 5225 3DF9 E5CA 8C49 25E4 205F `. `'` `- OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital

Bug#998108: firefox freezes shortly after start

2021-10-30 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: firefox Version: 93.0-1+b1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Hey. Since about yesterday (possibly since the rebuilt package came in) firefox freezes shortly after being started. There is no high CPU activity then, it just takes no input anymore (no keyboard, no