Update: if I switch AppArmor to complain mode, the refresh problems disappear. Here is a syslog excerpt with the AppArmor audit lines (notice the third one about /dev/nvidia-modeset):
Jan 28 18:06:48 fsol kernel: [24416.113173] audit: type=1400 audit(1485623208.731:2574): apparmor="ALLOWED" operation="open" profile="/usr/lib/firefox/firefox{,*[^s][^h]}" name="/etc/ld.so.preload" pid=6919 comm="plugin-containe" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=0 Jan 28 18:06:48 fsol kernel: [24416.229774] audit: type=1400 audit(1485623208.847:2575): apparmor="ALLOWED" operation="open" profile="/usr/lib/firefox/firefox{,*[^s][^h]}" name="/sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo" pid=6779 comm="firefox" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=0 Jan 28 18:06:48 fsol kernel: [24416.289012] audit: type=1400 audit(1485623208.907:2576): apparmor="ALLOWED" operation="open" profile="/usr/lib/firefox/firefox{,*[^s][^h]}" name="/dev/nvidia-modeset" pid=6779 comm="firefox" requested_mask="wr" denied_mask="wr" fsuid=1000 ouid=0 Jan 28 18:06:48 fsol kernel: [24416.293270] audit: type=1400 audit(1485623208.911:2577): apparmor="ALLOWED" operation="sendmsg" profile="/usr/lib/firefox/firefox{,*[^s][^h]}" pid=6779 comm="firefox" family="unix" sock_type="dgram" protocol=0 requested_mask="send" denied_mask="send" addr=none peer_addr="@6E7669646961666463393761343100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000" peer="unconfined" Jan 28 18:06:48 fsol kernel: [24416.293291] audit: type=1400 audit(1485623208.911:2578): apparmor="ALLOWED" operation="sendmsg" profile="/usr/lib/firefox/firefox{,*[^s][^h]}" pid=6779 comm="firefox" family="unix" sock_type="dgram" protocol=0 requested_mask="send" denied_mask="send" addr=none peer_addr="@6E7669646961666463393761343100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000" peer="unconfined" Jan 28 18:06:48 fsol kernel: [24416.293373] audit: type=1400 audit(1485623208.911:2579): apparmor="ALLOWED" operation="sendmsg" profile="/usr/lib/firefox/firefox{,*[^s][^h]}" pid=6779 comm="firefox" family="unix" sock_type="dgram" protocol=0 requested_mask="send" denied_mask="send" addr=none peer_addr="@6E7669646961666463393761343100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000" peer="unconfined" Jan 28 18:06:48 fsol kernel: [24416.300618] audit: type=1400 audit(1485623208.919:2580): apparmor="ALLOWED" operation="sendmsg" profile="/usr/lib/firefox/firefox{,*[^s][^h]}" pid=6779 comm="firefox" family="unix" sock_type="dgram" protocol=0 requested_mask="send" denied_mask="send" addr=none peer_addr="@6E7669646961666463393761343100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000" peer="unconfined" Jan 28 18:06:49 fsol dbus[4270]: apparmor="ALLOWED" operation="dbus_method_call" bus="session" path="/org/gtk/vfs/mounttracker" interface="org.gtk.vfs.MountTracker" member="ListMountableInfo" mask="send" name=":1.25" pid=6919 label="/usr/lib/firefox/firefox{,*[^s][^h]}" peer_pid=4448 peer_label="unconfined" Jan 28 18:06:56 fsol kernel: [24423.824158] audit: type=1400 audit(1485623216.443:2581): apparmor="ALLOWED" operation="mknod" profile="/usr/lib/firefox/firefox{,*[^s][^h]}" name="/dev/shm/org.chromium.T6Ehgv" pid=6919 comm=57656220436F6E74656E74 requested_mask="c" denied_mask="c" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1660051 Title: refresh problems with multi-process To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1660051/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs