firefox-60.x still unstable?

pablo_supertux · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2018 7:46 pm Post subject: firefox-60.x still unstable?

Hi

yesterday I've done an update of my system (eix-sync + -uvDN world) and my firefox (www-client/firefox-52.8.0) got updated.

I restarted firefox to test the new version and I was pleased to see that the UI is faster, but I had quite a few crashes.

Almost every time I closed a tab with a youtube video (ctrl+w or using mouse gestures with smartUp plugin) the browser crashes. I've mostly seen this with youtube pages, but not exclusively, closing another tab will sometimes lead to a crash. Sadly I don't have any logs of this, I started ff from a terminal and accidentally closed the terminal before I was able to copy & paste the error messages on stderr.

Also the video playback was awful while other packages were still being compiled, frames freezed for many seconds while audio kept running, this is definitively something new, because with ff-52.x this doesn't happen: doing an world update might slow down the scrolling of the page, but video playback is still OK. I checked with google chrome and it does not show the same behaviour, so I think the problem is with firefox and not with any dependency.

I ended up doing a downgrade of firefox to www-client/firefox-52.9.0 and the problems are gone.

Does anybody else have these experiences as well? And if so, were you able to fix it and how?

Thanks
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eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 12:39 am Post subject:

After some futzing, my firefox-60.2 installs seem to work okay, at least I'm using it now for f.g.o... the build process was the worst part, as well as the fact that extensions may have compatibility problems.
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roki942 · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 1:30 am Post subject:

What I've found on the YT crashes is that it will happen if the video is playing . When I stop the video the tab closes.

pablo_supertux · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 2:04 am Post subject:

nmel · n00b Joined: 12 Mar 2017 Posts: 34

Same here. After update from v52 Firefox often crashes in case there are pages with video streaming.

eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 6:03 am Post subject:

The two "stable" 60.2 machines I'm using were recently world updated, one is ati(radeon) and other is intel(915) though the latter is actually using firefox-bin 62. Trying the binary is worth it as a comparison.

I haven't fully tested another intel(hd4000) and intel(965) machines that were recently updated but they seem okay so far.

I am not using many extensions, though pointing to youtube seems okay. Haven't had a crash yet...
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tholin · Apprentice Joined: 04 Oct 2008 Posts: 203

The close youtube video crash is talked about in this thread with a shitty workaround near the end.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1081634-highlight-.html

eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 12:54 pm Post subject:

Oh yes, my machines are all using either pulseaudio or apulse, this may be why I'm not seeing issues... I have not done much testing with video on the 915 machine since it's naturally slow (1.5GHz Celeron and needs apulse) so no idea there, but it did play some audio fine...
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pablo_supertux · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 6:11 pm Post subject:

eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 6:38 pm Post subject:

pablo_supertux · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 7:27 pm Post subject:

eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 7:38 pm Post subject:

It was unfortunate, the i915/celeron machine also doesn't have pulsaudio installed and didn't particularly want to install PA on that machine, but the 62 binary version in portage did pick up apulse and seemed to work fine for me as well. Just costs CPU cycles.

Incidentally I could not get 60.2 to build on that machine, but I think it was due to distcc unfriendliness. That's a pity because that machine is a single core celeron which needs all the help it can get.

My other machines are PA enabled and I was recently able to get FF60.2 built and run just fine. Two of which are systemd, other is openrc.
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josephg · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 12:30 pm Post subject:

eccerr0r · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 1:24 pm Post subject:

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 3:07 pm Post subject:

eccerr0r · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 3:36 pm Post subject:

I don't know how much longer 52.x will be in the tree, it's not going to be supported by Mozilla for much longer if anymore, as well as the fact 60.x is the new ESR (and now marked stable by the Gentoo devs...)
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Anon-E-moose · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 3:40 pm Post subject:

That's what local is for