I reinstalled Firefox 138, and removed the “.mozilla” directory, and launched it from a terminal.
Using the MATE desktop, it launches and works (slowly). 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. Ken > On May 12, 2025, at 6:37 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 15:16 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Hi Damien, >> >> On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 23:00 +1000, Damien Stewart wrote: >>> I can confirm this on my system. Which is has an R7 250 in it and >>> because of that lacks hardware 3d and 2d by the looks of it, so I need >>> to rely on fbdev. Firefox works a lot better by not crashing on startup. >>> It opens up a window but only has borders as inside content is blank. I >>> also see it ignoring menus. But the menu does pop up with the right side >>> widget. Once of the checkmarks turned on but the menu bar would not. It >>> would not quit. I had to kill it with kill. I didn't notice any >>> unusually high cpu usage when I ran top to check. From CLI it did not >>> print any messages. But I could Ctrl-C it to quit. >> >> This sounds more like a configuration issue. Did you try purging your >> .mozilla directory or renaming it? I have a really hard time believing >> that it's actually broken as I verified it myself as you can see from >> my screenshot. >> >> >> FWIW, I did not use any kind of acceleration. Just plain X. > > You may try to disable GPU acceleration. However, there doesn't seem to > be a command line parameter for that. So, the easiest way would be to > SSH into your ppc64 machine and run firefox with "firefox -no-remote". > > For example: > > $ ssh -X -C debian-ppc64 > $ firefox -no-remote > > Then go into the settings menu to disable it, see [1]. > > Adrian > >> [1] >> https://support.udemy.com/hc/en-us/articles/22543012795799-Troubleshooting-How-to-Disable-Hardware-Acceleration-on-Your-Browser? > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer > `. `' Physicist > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
