[eykanspelgud]

I wish I could agree, and if I were experiencing a different situation, I would be in the same camp.

Firefox 65 keeps crashing on my Linux box. I've tried downgrading to 64 and below. But whatever updates were installed when I installed FF65 also crash FF64 and under.

It was either change OS or let FF go. I've since moved to brave browser, but would happily go back to FF if/when I figure out and troubleshoot the issue.

[the_pwner224]

I see that you've unsuccessfully tried to install various versions of FF. The problem might be in your FF config, which persists across versions and types (stable vs nightly).

The ~/.Mozilla/firefox folder contains all your FF profiles, there should just be one profile named something.default. Delete that folder and start FF and it should work.

That folder does contain all your settings so those will be lost (and you can also copy this folder to other computers to copy your entire FF configuration :).

[samcday]

That's a shame :(

FWIW I'm on 65.0.1 (64-bit) on Ubuntu 18.04.2 and have had no major issues. I use Firefox exclusively and use my browser heavily all day long.

[cbsks]

Firefox has been rock solid on my Linux box for the past 6 years or so. Are you downloading it from Mozilla, or from your distro’s package manager?

[eykanspelgud]

I've done both. Same issue. :(

[bproven]

Interesting - I use Fedora 29 and the defaul fedora repo version of FF with no issues on my end. I know that doesnt help, but it sounds like something specific to your setup (which I know still isn/t much solace :( )

[noir_lord]

Same, FF65 on F29 only browser I use no crashes on 3 different machines, one intel GPU, one RX460 (forget which) and one RTX2080.

[cpeterso]

Do you mind sharing any Crash Report IDs from your Firefox's about:crashes page? They should point to the crash stack trace, which might be fixable or at least suggest a workaround.

[cies]

Also on FF65 on Ubuntu (KDE Neon) to be exact, and runs like a charm. Yes it hogs memory (with lots of tabs open), but Chrome does that too, so I consider something outside my realm of control.

[cat199]

which distribution are you using?

I had serious stability problems on Fedora a few months ago which sounded just like yours - I've since switched to debian for other reasons (with same exact profile data) and things are fine, which made me suspect something in the runtime or build toolchain is different and triggered some subtle bug.

not to blame fedora specifically (and who knows if this was a 'me' problem); but distros do differ slightly esp. w/r/t kernel params/threading/builds etc.

Might be worth trying FF ESR or running in a different distro container to see if this helps (yes, not convenient, but..)

also possibly rebuild your profile (pretty sure I tried this.. but anyhow)

[pmoriarty]

It would help Firefox if you filed a bug report.

[joeseeder]

crashing is from LLVM and X11 on amdgpus