Firefox freezing the system
by tux01 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#58FSY)
Hi, I am using a distro with KDE on a laptop with Intel CPU and dual GPU Intel and AMD. My kernel is 5.4.5, I have 4Gb RAM and a swap file of the same size. When using Firefox I have a weird and annoying issue: after a while, regardless of how many tabs I open, the browser freezes when I right-click on a link or simply try to open a menu, locking up the whole system. There is no high memory usage, the swap file is not even touched, and I have no addons, just a clean profile. Things I have tried with no joy:
1) Creating a new profile and deleting the old one.
2) Turning off hardware acceleration.
3) Switching compositor from OpenGL to Xrender.
I have also talked to the devs of my distro, their only advice was to launch Firefox from terminal and wait for error messages that, in fact, didn't show up. What else could I try? Thanks.
1) Creating a new profile and deleting the old one.
2) Turning off hardware acceleration.
3) Switching compositor from OpenGL to Xrender.
I have also talked to the devs of my distro, their only advice was to launch Firefox from terminal and wait for error messages that, in fact, didn't show up. What else could I try? Thanks.