Firefox

[jglen490]

Firefox 39 was recently pushed and I installed it. It used to be extremely stable, but with the latest update it crashes constantly.

Anyone experiencing this? Any thoughts on what to look for?

[Qqmike]

Using Kubuntu 14.04 LTS, I must have had 39 installed for awhile, when did it come out? It must have come through Muon yesterday or the day before for me, not sure. Anyway, no -- no problems so far.
39+build5Oubuntu0.14.04.1

[jglen490]

O.K., I reinstalled - cross fingers. I'm using the freshplayerplugin for flash, which I've used for a while. Would it be better to go to Adobe instead?

[Qqmike]

I haven't kept up with the Flash business. I haven't done anything special, I do know that much. I have Adobe Flash Player, Shockwave Flash 11.2r202, according to the Firefox plug-in checker.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugin...incheck-update
Muon shows I have the flashplugin-installer. If that helps.

[jglen490]

Just did flashplugin-installer. And just had another crash, but Firefox is now on 11.2.202.491 - going to see if a complete reboot helps. Thank you.

[Qqmike]

Yes, according to Muon, View > History, I am also on 11.2.202.491. And it looks like my Firefox was upgraded to 39 on 7/10/15.

[Qqmike]

Hope you got it working.

If not, maybe try to clear things up? -->

sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install

and then either

sudo apt-get upgrade
or
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[Goeroeboeroe]

I had the exact same problem. For me it had to do with freshplayer-plugin version 18.0.0.209 (the latest version). I've read on some places more people have problems with that version. Firefox crashed every few seconds.
It was set on Always activate. When I changed that to Ask before activating the crashing stopped. But as soon as you allow it to activate, Firefox will very soon crash. So I only use flash when I really, really, really want to. (And found out I didn't use it for about five days now
Most of the sites use html5 by now.
When I uninstalled freshplayer the crashing stopped. With flahsplugin-installer Firefox doesn't crash, but that's an extremely old version of Flash.
Of course it may have something to do with a combination of this plug-in and add-ons, I didn't investigate that.

There's some more information here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...x/+bug/1474003

[jglen490]

It's been a few hours since rebooting and all is well. The freshplayerplugin was the culprit, and I'm back to the correct version of Adobe Shockwave. It's all working well, and I've been able to sync Firefox from my PC to my Android tablet (modified Nook Tablet). Thanks!

[Rod J]

I've been having problems the last couple of days with Firefox 39.

With all the ongoing issues with Adobe Flash I decided to disable the flash addon in Firefox as YouTube works OK without Flash and the TV OnDemand sites that insist on using it (probably because of DRM requirements ) don't work anyway for me in 14.04 64bit (well one site does but not the other).

Eveything was fine until I started Firefox fresh yesterday. I noticed straight away that my favicons had disappeared. Then discovered there was no history (that really annoyed me). After some sleuthing I discovered that my "places.sqlite" file in my profile was corrupted (renamed as "places.sqlite.corrupt"). I can get the history back with a bit of manipulation of the "places" files (basically exit Firefox completely then delete all the "places.sqlite*" files EXCEPT "places.sqlite.corrupt", then rename "places.sqlite.corrupt" to "places.sqlite". Start Firefox and everything is back BUT there is still corruption in the old "places.sqlite" file (according to the Places Maintenance addon).

What caused the corruption I don't know ... probably just a coincidence with recently disabling Flash. Anyway, I have since removed Flash completely by removing the flashplugin-installer package and I'll just have to put up with the loss of my web history.

[jglen490]

Understand, and sorry about the problems you've had with history. Yes, Flash does have its issues, except that it's not as much flash itself as it is with the flash player/plugin software allowing exploits to be successful. When it comes down to it, EVERY piece of software is exploitable to some degree. Just pick your battles and whatever inconvenience that you can tolerate.

[vinnywright]

I've been having problems the last couple of days with Firefox 39.

and the TV OnDemand sites that insist on using it (probably because of DRM requirements ) don't work anyway for me in 14.04 64bit (well one site does but not the other).

for DRM protected content you need "hal" from @hear https://launchpad.net/~mjblenner/+ar...ubuntu/ppa-hal ,,,,,,this lets me watch amazon prime video.

VINNY

[Rod J]

Thanks Vinny, I think I had hal installed before in 12.04 to get the video from the TVNZ OnDemand site working.

I think I'm going to set up my Virtualbox Mint 17.2 install with flash/hal whatever to get video from http://tvnz.co.nz/video working.