xubuntu-devel Digest, Vol 129, Issue 5

Joel Carlson

2016-06-10 14:38:59 UTC

Having problems with Firefox could be a hardware problem. Xubuntu is
working great on a number of different computers for us. We even have
Xenial running on a Pine64 which has a couple issues but that is because of
development in progress software. Check the memory. We have been using Mint
XFCE as well but after looking at the beta Mint 18 we might be going 100%
Xubuntu.

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1. Re: Firefox & Thunderbird Instability in Xenial (Robert Streeter)
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It could also be an extension that is causing the apps to crash randomly.

I've been using Xenial on my laptop for some time now and haven't seen

any

firefox crash yet. That said, I use this laptop mostly on Saturdays (for
about 6 continuous hours, firefox almost always open).
I don't use Thunderbird though, could it be something related to
Thunderbird?

Thanks, Florian. Will do. Wish me luck!
Hi Richard,
I'm using Firefox everyday with Xenial and I don't notice random

crashes.

I have already seen some crashes with Firefox with other release of

Xubuntu

(14.04) in the past. But with firefox 46, I don't have experimented
frequent crashes...
Today, Firefox was updated on Xenial, maybe you could try the new

version

47.
Florian

Hi Jordan,
The only files being updated by Firefox and Thunderbird are in /tmp and
$HOME/{.cache,.mozilla,.thunderbird}. Since I am filling out crash

reports

daily that go to Mozilla, I'll assume that they will contact me.
I switched to Midori and Claws-mail as an experiment. Stable although
not as feature rich.
I also tried an alternate distro (Ubuntu MATE) on a 3rd machine (AMD64
type with lots of RAM). I get occasional crashes there too. My gut

tells

me that Mozilla common code for Firefox and Thunderbird has some
environment nuances if you aren't seeing it too. This is the first

time

that I have ever had trouble with Firefox and Thunderbird. I may try
Chrome too.
Richard

Hi Richard,
Odd idea: have you thought of using 'journalctl' to see if any of the
main configuration files are being deleted by accident? The --since

switch

will let you narrow down the amount of information to a specific date
range. Often I have a script-in-a-script etc. in my crontab queue,

and

conflicting commands cause issues.
Thanks
Jordan

Is anyone else having issues with Firefox and Thunderbird on Xubuntu
Xenial? I am getting random crashes almost every day from one or the
other, leading me to believe that it is a set of issues in common

code. I

<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1581569>
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1581569
and in the Mozilla pop-up whenever I get it.
My 14.04 server has no such Mozilla issues even though the Firefox &
Thunderbird versions are the same as what's on the 16.04 system.
If anyone else is having such an experience, please mark that "it
affects me" at the bug report.
If anyone has a work-around, please add a comment to the bug report.
Thank you.

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