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xerxes_

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Registered: 2018-04-29

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Firefox crashes since glycin dependency when choose download directory

I found reproducible crash of Firefox, probably since glycin dependency (so Firefox version 143 and 144).

How to do it:
1. Start Firefox.
2. Go to settings.
3. Select option "Ask where to save every file" (translation is mine, so it may be a bit different).
4. Go to any site where you can download and save any file to disk (when window to select directory where to save downloaded file is trying to open, you get instant crash).
5. You get Firefox report window and you can close Firefox or restart it. No coredump in coredumpctl is created.

Notice:
I start Firefox in firejail, so maybe it would be related with this or not.
No icons are displayed in settings > general > applications > content type.

Someone confirm or deny this.

Last edited by xerxes_ (Yesterday 21:27:21)

Xephon

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Registered: 2024-12-22

Posts: 188

Re: Firefox crashes since glycin dependency when choose download directory

Tested on firefox 144.0-1 without firejail:
no crashes, icons are displayed

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Firefox crashes since glycin dependency when choose download directory

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glycin/-/issues/203

obvious answer is that confining apps from the outside […] is doomed to fail.

"You're running it wrongly"…

Next to firejail, the file dialog might go through the xdg-desktop portals where the specific implementation might matter.

nb, that FF itself does not depend on glycin, gdk-pixbuf2 does and there're various threads about that and there's https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gdk-pixbuf2-noglycin

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