Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 18:29:54 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: B J <va6bmj@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Kernel Panics With Firefox 63.x Message-ID: <20181113182954.1d7060bd.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CAP7QzkN_6sGAh66Am2oTfDmazWUD6Gxq2d5ss-kNewjcRoc5RA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAP7QzkN_6sGAh66Am2oTfDmazWUD6Gxq2d5ss-kNewjcRoc5RA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:44:04 +0000, B J wrote: > I recently upgraded my system and that included Firefox. It's been > troublesome ever since. Often, it would crash for no apparent reason > and this morning, it started taking down my entire system. The result > was that my machine would have to reboot. > > Now I can't use Firefox at all without having my machine going into a > kernel panic. Could you get any useful information from the kernel dump? > My machine is more than 10 years old and I think it runs 32 bits. The > OS is FreeBSD 11.2 and I'm using Mate as a desktop. Same here - the machine is quite old and runs 32 bit, which is intended (2 GB RAM, no requirement for 64 bit at all, trouble with nVidia driver). Needless to say, I'm _not_ using Firefox on that particular machine (I prefer Opera). > Any suggestions? Thanks. Others than replacing Firefox with a better browser? ;-) What you could do: Re-install Firefox (most recent version). Also make sure all of its dependencies are up to date. In worst case, it's "just" a memory leak. Check if the Firefox + system crashes happen when visiting "complicated pages" (i. e., those involving lots of JS, or those containing FLV, MP4 or WebM media content). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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