From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Aug 13 15:33:02 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA003B2EEC for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:33:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from kicp.uchicago.edu (kicp.uchicago.edu [128.135.20.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 467Gv224GRz40lt for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:33:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from point.uchicago.edu (point.uchicago.edu [128.135.52.6]) (Authenticated sender: galtsev) by kicp.uchicago.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 886CC4E636 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:33:01 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: Firefox or what? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <60D6EFE4-D594-4E61-8B57-D4E4876EAC83@gmail.com> <20190813172655.352a89b3.freebsd@edvax.de> From: Valeri Galtsev Message-ID: Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:33:01 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190813172655.352a89b3.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 467Gv224GRz40lt X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=fail reason="No valid SPF, No valid DKIM" header.from=uchicago.edu (policy=none); spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu has no SPF policy when checking 128.135.20.70) smtp.mailfrom=galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-0.91 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; DMARC_POLICY_SOFTFAIL(0.10)[uchicago.edu : No valid SPF, No valid DKIM,none]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.91)[-0.908,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.94)[-0.938,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.15)[-0.155,0]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[70.20.135.128.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.10.0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:160, ipnet:128.135.0.0/16, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(-0.01)[country: US(-0.05)]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:33:02 -0000 On 2019-08-13 10:26, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:44:15 -0400, Eric wrote: >> Mine will freeze and crash regularly as well. It was much worse at >> one time but I went to the configuration folder and moved it to a >> different name letting firefox set itself up again like it was >> first use. > > You can use the profile manager to do this, without having to deal > with configuration directories manually: > > % firefox -P > % firefox -p > % firefox -ProfileManager > > However, configuration "bugs" should not cause Firefox to crash. > > > >> I forget where the folder was whether it was in .config or not. > > It should be ~/.mozilla/firefox, with subdirectories for each > profile that has been instantiated. > > > >> It helped a lot but didnt completely solve the problem. I'm using >> 11.2/amd64 so I'm hoping things are better in 12 when I take the >> leap. > > Check if a newer version of Firefox is available. In many cases, > performing an update will help. With Firefox doing updates is a must. They will fix known bugs and vulnerabilities (and may introduce new ones ;-) Crushes of outdated Firefox may indicate one is hitting websites that are trying to exploit known vulnerabilities (chances are small but do depend on one's browsing habits) Valeri > > Oh, and always check for filesystem inconsistencies... ;-) > > > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++