On Wed, 2024-07-17 at 22:17 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 7/17/24 21:25, Gary Dale wrote: > > I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system, using the Plasma 5 > > over X > > desktop. Firefox 115.12.0esr is crashing multiple times per day. It > > frequently happens when page I'm transfers to another page that > > creates a > PDF or just has a complicated link. It's annoying.
I upgraded from Debian 10 to Debian 12.5 "Bookworm." The NVidia 390 driver no longer works, so I had software rendering because nouveau apparently can't do GPU rendering. Rather than crashing, the system essentially froze. After waiting for a VERY long time, I would give up and cycle power, with my reboot set up to start an empty session, not the one I had going at time of the power cycle. I replaced the graphics card with a Quadro K2200, which works with the nvidia-drivers package that's still part of the Debian 12.5 distro. With GPU rendering, I no longer have the problem. I can't do that with my old Dell Vostro 1700 because the NVidia graphics chip is soldered to the motherboard, and it needs the 340 driver, which is also no longer available. I tried several of the methods discussed in this thread to get the drivers working, but had no success. Maybe I was just holding my mouth wrong. > > > I have Firefox 115.13.0esr and it rarely crashes for me, and I have > dozens > of tabs open. I use straight XFCE, no Plasma. Could be it doesn't > do PDFs > well? I use Zathura to view PDFs. It's rather ... "feature free", > so I may > change. > > > I also have found that at least one site refuses to work with 115. > > That's > > been going on for a while. Again, I have to use Chromium for that > > site. > > Can you say what that site is? > > -- > An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of > being called an idea at all. -- Oscar Wilde >
