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BasT

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Registered: 2010-08-28

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[Solved] Firefox windows freeze after starting game

Whenever I start any game, all open Firefox windows become unresponsive. I can open new windows which work just fine or restart firefox but all open ones are dead.

Running KDE plasma on X.

Are there any logs I can check to investigate this issue? Xorg.0.log doesn't contain anything interesting.

Last edited by BasT (2021-05-19 21:53:57)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [Solved] Firefox windows freeze after starting game

any game

I find that very odd, does this also happen with simple KDE games (like kmines and kpatience) and native linux games (like 0ad and openmw ) ?

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BasT

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Registered: 2010-08-28

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Re: [Solved] Firefox windows freeze after starting game

All the games I tried before were native games, however all were started through Steam (Stellaris, Rimworld, Stardew Valley, Terraria, Surviving Mars, Factorio, FTL). Most started in fullscreen, but not all. These all caused Firefox to freeze.

So I installed and started 0ad (to the main menu) - Firefox freezes.

The one non-native game I tried (Offworld Trading Company) also caused a freeze.

One game (Star Traders: Frontiers - also native) did not cause a freeze. Maybe it's graphically too simple (wild guess)?

KDE games seem to be fine - no freeze.

Last edited by BasT (2021-05-19 20:19:14)

kokoko3k

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Re: [Solved] Firefox windows freeze after starting game

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1711039

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BasT

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Re: [Solved] Firefox windows freeze after starting game

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1711039

That's it. Thanks!