Firefox keeps crashing after every launch

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This was what I was thinking too since Firefox works on a secondary profile. I use Heroic games launcher for almost all my games too (Around 43 of them) and use a firefox based browser and don’t have any issues when I run games, at least in the log file I only see one game mentioned.

Probably the only way to find out if I had this issue would be to set up the new second account how I normally would each step at a time (Or backtrack what I recently done) and see which change or program prevents Firefox from opening since the tests so far indicate firefox to be fine and working.

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Well it won’t launch even if there’s no any other software is running (native and wine). I guess it’s not game specific issue. I mentioned wine in the topic just because after I launched PCBS2 via Heroic, FF crashed and stopped launching

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I will try to set up a new profile and track what’s causing the issue with Firefox. but it won’t happen now, because it’s 2AM in my timezone :slight_smile:

P.S Is there any tools that help tracking issues when figuring out errors by this method? Or only good old self testing every part?

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About the log file, I can generate a new one without any additional software running in a background just to see what’s FF doing

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I just got myself thinking, could this issue be caused by my FF account with corrupted cloud data or something like it?

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So I tried this method and still Firefox doesnt show up, it’s pretending to work in background but it doesn’t show up anything on a screen and in terminal

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Update:

I tried creating a new account and doing the same things, but I did same things as on my main user, but Firefox isn’t crashing

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A little update: I again tried to reinstall Arch and everything went smoothly. As I was playing with my friends in Dota 2 (Native version) I decided to launch FF just to check if it’s working or not. And for my surprise it’s not. FF launches, freezes and remain static until I kill it via terminal (static I mean I can’t even move the window)

So I can assume that it isn’t Wine or FF Account (I didn’t log in just to check) fault

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Try this in a terminal for launching Firefox. It disables hardware acceleration on launch.
May or may not work.

MOZ_DISABLE_RDD_SANDBOX=1 firefox --disable-gpu
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I tried it, it shows the window but after nothing happens, window is just frozen until I kill FF in terminal.

And after I will reboot my pc, even this window won’t show

UPD: I figured out that it still shows the window even after restart, but nothing happens after

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Update:

So I did some test and results are:

  1. It’s not X11 or Wayland fault
  2. It’s not apparmor or firewalld fault (I thought they are responsible for that crash
  3. Deleting dotfolders won’t help
  4. Proxy isn’t working when I was doing test but it might be actually it’s fault I just don’t know how to test it (or change Firefox config to use proxy without using GUI)
  5. It’s not linux-zen’s fault
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Have you tried a Firefox derivative yet? If they don’t work as well, then it’s probably hardware, firmware, or proxy/net related. Is your BIOS up-to-date?

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Yea I updated bios recently I guess it’s not hardware fault

About derivatives I tried to use ESR and firefox-vaapi but they didn’t work either

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So a little announcement to everyone that were participating in this topic. Thank you so much for trying to help me. That again proves that EnOS community is much kinder than RTFM guys from Arch forums.

I just gave up trying to fix this problem on Arch and switched back to the good old EnOS that is working perfectly fine without any issues on my hardware.

Thanks everyone for trying to help me and giving me advice :heart:

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You can try Librewolf. Aside from the icon, it’s indistinguishable from Firefox. Just extra privacy and security options on by default.

EDIT:

I agree completely!

:enos_flag: :enos:

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At least this Firefox issue teached me about Linux utilities that I didn’t know about before and also “if it works don’t touch it” :grin:

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Shining

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I’m a bit delayed in coming back to this thread, so there are a lot of messages here.

It’s good you have a working system again one way or the other. Very strange issue though, never come across it myself. But EnOS is a good distro and almost the same as using an Arch system so you won’t be giving up an Arch OS.

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I would agree with you that this issue is very strange. I didn’t have it in my entire history of using various Linux distros, but I’m glad that I’m finally back home on EnOS. Because this distro became the best for me after like 3-4 months of distrohopping.

In some ways I’m even happy that I switched back, first time I tried arch it felt way harder for me to understand rathen than EnOS

And I glad that I also didn’t switch back to evil bill gates system :laughing:

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For me anything is better than Windows, I would try to do everything before going back to that.

As long as you are happy that is the main thing, the most important part of using a PC is it shouldn’t be annoying or bad to use, and does what you need it to do.

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