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hydrosIII

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Registered: 2013-04-04

Posts: 127

[SOLVED] Firefox is freezing Xorg

HI, i have an annoying problem with firefox.
It randomly crashes, freezing the entire X windows system. I have to switch to a tty and kill the process to get X working again. this behaviour has nothing to do with an specific action. It is just random. But it crashes very often, i cannot use it at all.
It is also present in different firefox versions, firefox-esr, firefox 20, firefox 25. I have also tried iceweasel from the parabola repos, same behaviour. Now im using chrome, but i want firefox. I use it mainly to collect citations with zotero.
I have reinstalled, uninstalled, different versions, etc. I just dont know what to do
Any clue?

I'm running xfce4, fully updated system

Last edited by hydrosIII (2014-01-10 03:29:29)

wesleyac

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Registered: 2013-08-27

Posts: 80

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox is freezing Xorg

How much RAM do you have?  It's possible that you're running out of RAM, thus making linux use swap, which can be very annoying in X.

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Firefox is freezing Xorg

Anything interesting in the logs or in systemd's journal?

thisoldman

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Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 1,172

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox is freezing Xorg

Do you have the same behavior without Firefox extensions and add-ons?   You haven't stated if you have done so.

When diagnosing Firefox problems, I usually start with safe mode and then add extensions, first singly, and then in combinations, adding them one by one until I see the problem reappear

jakub

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Registered: 2013-09-14

Posts: 151

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox is freezing Xorg

There is some problem with Firefox recently - did you check this thread Firefox 26 Crashing - Assertion Failure ?

wesleyac

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Registered: 2013-08-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Firefox is freezing Xorg

There is some problem with Firefox recently - did you check this thread Firefox 26 Crashing - Assertion Failure ?

That seems unrelated, because it doesn't freeze Xorg.

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hydrosIII

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Registered: 2013-04-04

Posts: 127

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox is freezing Xorg

Hi thank you for all the responses. I'll check firefox safe mode, maybe it is addon related. Regarding memory , i dont have a lot of memeory. just 2 Gb of Ram, but everything runs smoothly. I even run sometimes 2 virtual machines using virtualbox and surf the internet, so i doubth is the issue.

I'll check systemd journal to see if it is something there.
Also as i said is affecting different versions of firefox.
Thanks

Last edited by hydrosIII (2014-01-09 00:02:35)

hydrosIII

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Registered: 2013-04-04

Posts: 127

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox is freezing Xorg

Using the safe mode in firefox, solves the problem. Im gonna see which addon is causing these.
Thank you. It was really easy.