Mint 19.1 Mate and Firefox 94.0 32 Bit

[rdconsult]

Hallo

my system is running
Mint 19.1 Mate and Firefox 94.0 32 Bit
I am missing the Firefox 32 Bit upgrade to 94.0.2

From the Release of 94.0.2
94.0.2
Firefox Release
November 22, 2021
Version 94.0.2, first offered to Release channel users on November 22, 2021

Fixed
Improved hangs experienced by users of assistive technology such as NVDA when installing Firefox through the Microsoft Store (bug 1736742)
Resolved general instability/crashes on Linux caused by a file descriptor leak when backgrounding tabs using WebGL (bug 1741997)
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My current Firefox does crashes during my surf activities.

kind regards
Rainer

[karlchen]

Hello, Rainer.

The Linux Mint repos have never offered, either the Firefox update 94.0.1, nor the Firefox update 94.0.2, neither for 64-bit, nor for 32-bit.

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karl@voyager:~$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 94.0+linuxmint1+tricia
  Candidate: 94.0+linuxmint1+tricia
  Version table:
 *** 94.0+linuxmint1+tricia 700
        700 http://packages.linuxmint.com tina/upstream amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     94.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main amd64 Packages
     59.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages

As the output above reveals, even the official Ubuntu repos are stuck on Firefox 94.0. So it is not only the Linux Mint repos.

Anyway. The reason, why your Firefox crashes, very likely is related to something in your Firefox profile or inside the Firefox cache directories.

So the following steps are suggested in order to resolve the Firefox crashes:

• Close Firefox
• Delete the complete Firefox cache, i.e. remove ~/.cache/mozilla including its content.
• Start Firefox again and find out whether it will work without crashing again.

Regards,
Karl

[rdconsult]

Hallo Karl,

following your suggestions, i purge all cache for cookies and web data.

check of my action, new cache size was 0 kb.

Just run in the first crash by surfing on https://www.tagesschau.de and links in the same domain in private windows/tabs after about 10 min.


kind regards

Rainer

[karlchen]

Hello, Rainer.

The wording below

following your suggestions, i purge all cache for cookies and web data.
check of my action, new cache size was 0 kb.

raises my doubts, whether you have really followed the 3 steps given by me.

• Close Firefox
• Delete the complete Firefox cache, i.e. remove ~/.cache/mozilla including its content.
• Start Firefox again and find out whether it will work without crashing again.

Your words rather suggest that you cleared cookies and cache from inside the running Firefox. But doing so would not be what I had suggested.

Karl

[karlchen]

Hello, Rainer.

In case following the 3 steps given by me should not resolve the problem, then I would suggest a more drastic approach.
The more drasic approach would include temporarily moving aside the current Firefox user profile, too. But in such a way that it will be possible to move it back into its old place afterwards. So nothing will be lost.

1. Close Firefox. It must not be running any longer.
2. Clear the Firefox chache sub-directories completely. Terminal command: rm -rf ~/.cache/mozilla
3. Move aside the current Firefox user profile, but without deleting it. Terminal command: mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.bak
4. Launch Firefox again. It will create a new fresh user profile.
5. Visit the webpage https://www.tagesschau.de. Do more surfing to find out whether the crash happens again.

How to revert to the old Firefox user profile:

1. Close Firefox. It must not be running any longer.
2. Remove the fresh Firefox user profile, created above. Terminal command: rm -rf ~/.mozilla
3. Move the old Firefox user profile into the old place. Terminal command: mv ~/.mozilla.bak ~/.mozilla
4. Launch Firefox again. You should be back to were you started from, using your old profile

Karl