[SOLVED] Firefox > 93.0-1 randomly hangs

[dpanter]

Seems 93.0-1+b1 and 94.0-1 may be affected as of writing.
If you upgraded to either of these, feel free to drop a comment about your experience. I have stayed on 93.0-1 for now until we learn more about the issue.

Bug#998108: firefox freezes shortly after start
https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1828070.html

edit: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=998108

edit: if you want to revert to the last known good version, you can grab the package from snapshots and install manually, then hold this version with

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apt-mark hold firefox https://snapshot.debian.org/package/firefox/93.0-1/#firefox_93.0-1


edit: SOLVED with 94.0-2
Thanks all who reported their experiences in this thread.

[ReinerS]

Hi,
I also have such unexplainable hangs on various sides.
I am using Firefox 94.

greetings

Reiner

[ayla]

yes, same here

[dpanter]

Added link to 93.0-1 package in the topic post.

[ReinerS]

Thank you

regards

Reiner

[Carnophage]

I have seen the issue with 93.0-1+b1, but after upgrading to 94.0-1 yesterday, it didn't reproduce yet.

[hendrikL]

One question, which video device are you all using?

https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2021/10/30/firefox-94-comes-with-egl-on-x11/

Firefox 94 is coming out next week and brings awesome news. OpenGL EGL backend its enabled by default on Intel/AMD and recent Mesa for users on X11
...
NVIDIA is also working on EGL & DMA-Buf support in their proprietary drivers so there’s a hope for owners of such FOSS unfriendly hardware.

So give Firefox 94 a try. If anything goes wrong, please file a bug. You can also disable EGL and switch back to GLX. Go to about:config page and flip gfx.x11-egl.force-disabled preference and restart browser.

[ReinerS]

I have :
Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
           Device-2: Chicony Integrated HP HD Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 2000x1400~60Hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2) v: 4.2 Mesa 21.2.5

regards

Reiner

[ayla]

Hallo,

jk@jk-sidcblues:~$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1: 1920x1200~60Hz
           2: 2560x1440~60Hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2) v: 4.5 Mesa 21.2.4

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Go to about:config page and flip gfx.x11-egl.force-disabled preference and restart browser.does not change this behavior here.
regards
ayla

[ayla]

hmm...
It's not a random behavior here. At least I have a side were it is reproduceable every time. But as it is a slot game side I dont like to promote it here. One can not set really money there and for trying one may get free points by registrating. So if someone is interested for testing purposes I may give a link per pm and tell how to reproduce.

[dpanter]

User sergio suggested yesterday on the mailing list that the problem is reproducible (even on a clean profile) by just browsing https://soundcloud.com/

[hendrikL]

So I played around with soundcloud, no problems at all ,as long as the addblocker is disabled ,
At the moment I do not have any problems with FF, I am using FF a lot.
I can't reproduce it!™

EDIT: I have to revert it, here it hangs when I follow a link, and it doesn't load!
If the link loads fast, there is no problem, strange, very strange.
When I restart FF the problem with that link is gone.
Maybe they were too fast to enable that egl feature.
So at the most time of using FF there are no problems, maybe it is an addon like uBlock or something similar causing it!?

EDIT-EDIT:
I can reproduce it, open many links till it starts to get slow and slower to open a link because it needs more and more bandwidth, by stressing the  connection. (started FF in the --safe-mode)

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LANG=C apt policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 94.0-1
  Candidate: 94.0-1


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inxi -G
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1440x900~60Hz
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (ILK) v: 2.1 Mesa 21.2.5


[whistler_mb]

I can konform this behavior.

Firefox hangs for me after I log out of adobe.com and then go to any other page.

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~$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir driver: amdgpu v: kernel
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution:
           1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: 1920x1080~60Hz
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.42.0 5.15.1-1-siduction-amd64 LLVM 12.0.1) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.5

[kokurya]

With the new firefox it seems to be solved so far for me

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apt policy firefox
firefox:
  Installiert:           94.0-2
  Installationskandidat: 94.0-2
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 94.0-2 500
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[ayla]

solved here also with 94.0-2