Re: Firefox 133 test package for ppc64

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
Message-ID <d12656184f72c093ff7d276a2765a3302325a00c.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Hi,

On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 09:55 -0700, Ken Cunningham wrote:
> > > Using LXDE, this time I see content in the windows. But as soon as
> > > I click on a menu I get a hard desktop lockup, my remote ssh session
> > > disconnects, and the windfarm fans go to 100%.
> > > 
> > > No messages in the terminal window.
> > > 
> > > So then I power cycle.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I like MATE anyway — it’s just a bit slower in use that LXDE I find.
> > > But better than crashing. 
> > 
> > I wouldn't really expect the window manager to have any impact on how
> > Firefox behaves. Did you try tweaking the settings (GPU acceleration etc)?
> 
> 
> Yes, me neither. But there we are. Also a bad crash using FIrefox with OpenBox.
> Only MATE is working for me -- for whatever reason.
> 
> While in MATE, I opened Firefox 138 and  disabled HW acceleration, and the
> rebooted into LXDE. Firefox 138 had the same bad crash (lockup, have
> power cycle to restart) as usual.

Was there any backtrace after the crash when running from the terminal?

We need to know where it crashed. If possible, a gdb backtrace would
be helpful.

Adrian

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