Description of problem: Firefox 26.0 on Fedora 20 i686 is crashing, approximately 30+ times per day, since the initial installation of Fedora 20 at the 17th of December, 2013. No plugins. No Flash. No extensions. Clean profile. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Firefox 26.0 (firefox-26.0-3.fc20.i686) Fedora 20 i686 (Linux *** 3.12.5-302.fc20.i686+PAE #1 SMP Tue Dec 17 20:51:40 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux) Also: kmod-nvidia-PAE-331.20-10.fc20.1.i686 How reproducible: Just to open a certain page. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use clean profile: “mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.bkp” 2. Go to http://www.meteor.com 3. Find the “Docs” menu item at the top. 4. Click and wait. 5. Crash. Gnome says “… is not responding” → “Force Quit”. If run under terminal, it says “Segmentation fault (core dumped)”. Actual results: Crash. Expected results: Not crashing. Additional info: Please, someone, do package Chromium for Fedora 20. Firefox is currently the only usable browser for Fedora 20. Yet, it’s not _that_ usable.
SELinux is in Permissive mode.
Created attachment 842218 [details] Video with the crash
Can you please attach a backtrace of the crash? See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Debugging_guidelines_for_Mozilla_products Thanks!
Sorry, I mean the "Application_freeze" section: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Debugging_guidelines_for_Mozilla_products#Application_freeze
Can you try to set "javascript.options.baselinejit.content" to false in about:config?
Created attachment 846712 [details] Crash dump
Take my apologies for delay. In my country, we are on holidays till Thursday. I’ve made a crash dump. I don’t know of it’s usefulness though.
When I set up “javascript.options.baselinejit.content” to “false”, the crash does not happen but the browser still freezes on a few moments and only then shows the page [from the description of the bug]. I also noticed that the overall rendering is very slow.
This is my first time commenting or reporting a bug so please be gentle if i get it wrong ! I have installed F20 Mate spin. fullay patched as of 1/30/2014. When i use fire fox the computer freezes, ssh does not answer, and screen shows video trash. Ctl alt del does not work, and a power cycle is required to reboot. For a while i was able to use firefox successfully. But now every time i start it i get the freeze behavior. Speculating here: that something changed in firefox's directory in my home dir that causes firefox to uncover a bug in the display, or even the kernel. i created a new user with blank home dir, and was able to start firefox. when i recreate my user home directory and logged in i immediately got a firefox bug notification, which said that the bug had been reported. abrt seemed to report a problem with flash. the flash plugin is flash-plugin-11.2.202.335-release.x86_64. just removed flash and i can now run firefox again. (it seems)
+1 for fixes needed. I'm also seeing crashing ALOT on fedora 19 64 bit, using firefox 26. I've tried openjdk and sunjdk java, with no change in behaviour. the use case is bring up firefox 26 and be googling/browsing, click links on a web page, and crash, web browser gone, restore web browser, start working and crash again. bizarre. I've tried removing the .mozilla folder, didn't make a difference.
A key thing i'd like to emphasize. When Firefox crashes it freezes the OS. A power cycle is the only thing that gets it going again. I OK i removed flash, ff still crashed. I tried the work around for the GDM freezing bug (installed KDM) firefox eventually crashed the OS. I reinstalled with Fedora 19 and have observed this behavior at thislevel too. I am wondering if this is due to a video driver or something. Windows 7 works fine on this machine (including running Everquest (a 3d game)) so i dont think its a hardware thing. The machine is an e Machines, (yes i know, dont poke fun) EL 1352 AMD with 4GB and 64bit win7 dual booting with Fedora 20/19. THe video card is a GeForce 6150SE nForce 430. Should i list this somewhere else ?
Two more things: 1) I think this is exposing a kernel problem. The Kernel should protect itself from mis-behaving apps. 2) It seems to also freeze when running in a virtual box guest instance. This is with vbox 4.3.6. Its freezing often enough that f20 itself is almost not usable. It also froze once before i even started firefox. So it seems like running firefox increases the chance of freezing, but that it will freeze when firefox is not even running. interesting point: there is characteristic video trash when it freezes.
Do you still see the issue?
I’m not using Fedora 20 i686 any more and unable to confirm. I’m no longer interested in this bug. I guess, you can safely close the issue.
Okay, Thanks.