6.9-beta Firefox browser tabs keep crashing

[J65nko]

I installed OpenBSD 6.9-beta:

ml310e$ dmesg | head -12
OpenBSD 6.9-beta (GENERIC.MP) #403: Sun Mar 14 15:07:45 MDT 2021
    deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
real mem = 4242419712 (4045MB)
avail mem = 4098453504 (3908MB)
random: good seed from bootblocks
mpath0 at root
scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 targets
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.7 @ 0xf3fcb000 (84 entries)
bios0: vendor HP version "P78" date 09/01/2013
bios0: HP ProLiant ML310e Gen8 v2
acpi0 at bios0: ACPI 3.0

The first package I installed was firefox-86.0.1
I signed in to Firefox to synchronize my bookmarks etc with those on my Lenovo tablet.
That worked well, but the majoritiy of the website tabs that I open crash. Firefox does not crash, only the tabs, and reloading the tab also fails.
There is a core file:

-rw------- 1 j65nko j65nko 151713920 Mar 16 22:17 firefox.core

After some searching I found the advice to start Firefox in "safe mode". This solves the issue and now I can browse normally without any tabs crashing.

Any one has seen this? Or with older versions of OpenBSD and/or Firefox?

BTW Firefox safe mode when it is already running:

• From the menu bar select "Help"
• Choose "Restart With Add-ons Enabled"

From the command line: $ firefox -safe-mode &

EDIT: The tab crashes have something to do with 'pledge":

Mar 16 22:16:06 ml310e /bsd: firefox[81514]: pledge "", syscall 289
Mar 16 22:17:10 ml310e /bsd: firefox[2096]: pledge "", syscall 289

[shep]

The Firefox package readme is pretty extensive:
http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cv...ype=text/plain

Did you import your profile or just bookmarks?

[J65nko]

I first had Linux Mint on this machine. I used Firefox Sync to copy my saved logins history etc from Mint to my Lenovo Android tablet. Then I synced the stuff from the tablet to OpenBSD Firefox.
I had no problems with accessing daemonforums, but the Yahoo mail tab, that I use to read the forum "Contact Us" crashed.

[TronDD]

If you run firefox from a terminal is it spitting out any errors?

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m...5720506293&w=2

[J65nko]

Yes:

ml310e$ firefox &
[1] 87315
ml310e$ Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: glxtest: libpci missing (t=0.780468) [GFX1-]: glxtest: libpci missing

ml310e$ ls -l /dev/drm0 
crw-------  1 j65nko  wheel   87,   0 Mar 15 23:10 /dev/drm0

[J65nko]

Firefox worked well in safe-mode until I had to upload the script in the http://daemonforums.org/showthread.p...1675#post70497 forum post.
The X Window screen meshed up/darkened when I was trying to select the file. And the system hang. CTRL=F1 did not work, I had to unplug the power cable to reboot the system.

I followed the Firefox pkg readme at /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/firefox and disabled both the unveil and pledge files:

#/bin/sh

DISABLE="/etc/firefox/{unveil,pledge}.{main,content,gpu}"
for THIS in $DISABLE ; do
   echo $THIS
   echo disable > $THIS
done

cat /etc/firefox/*

This made Firefox work again. Because I have some real work to do, I don't have time to try the debug the issue.

[J65nko]

Today I tried the most recent 6.9-beta with new Firefox package. Even after creating an user profile, it crashed when I tried to add an attachment to a Gmail message. (To select the attachment, you have to browse your home directory)

The last effort, per the package Readme, starting firefox with $ dbus-launch firefox --safe-mode & still crashed.

To be fair to OpenBSD, both Firefox and Chrome sometimes hang on my Lenovo Android tablet too. But on OpenBSD not being able to attach a file to an email, makes it unusable.

[jggimi]

Are you using the default login class? If so, switch the user to staff. The default class doesn't have enough resources to run a browser.

[ripe]

Looking in MARC I found this
https://marc.info/?t=161484320700002&r=1&w=2
Plus an other topic related to firefox in 03/ or 04/2021
Maybe this also can help or not.

[J65nko]

@jjgimi.

$ ]userinfo adriaan | grep class
class   staff

@ripe The error described in that mailing list did not happen in my case:

$ ls -l .mozilla/firefox/829lp0qp.AdriaanPrivate/storage/permanent

[zozo_serieux]

Hi,
did you try the firefox-esr package? I was unable to use firefox more than few minutes before a crash even in staff mode and more than few seconds each time I tried to go to my preferences. Now, firefox-esr is usable even with my default login class.
Sorry if my advice doesn't match your request.

[J65nko]

Originally Posted by zozo_serieux

Hi,
did you try the firefox-esr package?

Thanks for the tip. I did not try the Extended Support Release yet, but I will keep it in mind

[zozo_serieux]

Hi, I just checked, by curiosity, my firefox version installed on my macos computer: it's an esr version (silently provided by the download page). I didn't know when I installed it.

[J65nko]

The latest snapshot of Firefox-esr, firefox-esr-78.9.0, also crashes when I try to select a file to attach to an email.

[ripe]

Try this:
Put the desired files you want to upload in your Download directory of Firefox-esr (example, pdf files).
Download from Internet (email box for example) a pdf in your Download directory.
You will see this file you downloaded available to be upload to Internet.
Upload it in a email for example. Send the file to Internet.
Next time all the .pdf in your Download directory will be available to download.

[J65nko]

Ripe, I did something similar.

A few days ago, with a newer snapshot, I downloaded something first. After that I was able to upload/attach it to a mail message. So I was quite happy.

But today when filing my income tax, firefox-esr crashed when I tried to print the data, that the tax department, already had on me and that I needed to check for being complete.
After rebooting I still could continue with the income tax filing though ;-)

[ripe]

Okay.
For crash of firefox-esr I do not know how to do as with it, it crash rarely for me.