Both my wife and I have 12.04LTS on our desktop PCs. Last Saturday a routine apt-get upgrade
upgraded us from Firefox 42.0 to Firefox 43.0. The new version crashes consistently if you try to play and video on YouTube within a few seconds and crashes on other sites too, to the point where it's unusable.
I searched around on the Web and as a result tried various tweaks to about:config
but without success.
In the end we have downgraded to 42.0 by grabbing the tarball from Mozilla and installing it in /opt
but I'm fully aware that this is a less than optimal position to be in as we're now stuck on an old release.
Given that this happened to both of us, and our set ups are not identical, I'm surprised other people aren't having problems too as it can't be just us but my Google Foo seems weak. Hence my post here.
Has anyone got any ideas as to why we're having problems? TIA
sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-*
and then see. If it still crashes, give a system restart and try again.firefox -safe-mode
to see if that works. If it still crashes, the problem is definitely the Firefox, so you can report a bug with the markregression
— I think regression, and especially crashes, would have a high priority, so you can expect it would be fixed fast.TNS filter order 20 is greater than maximum 12.
which I suspecting may be significant.ppa:gstreamer-developers/ppa
but Firefox still crashes in safe mode. The error on the terminal varies. For the previous page with video I now getI/SampleTable( 6522): There are reordered frames present.
and for YouTube I get: [h264 @0x7fb33a281800] AVC: nal size 0 [h264 @ 0x7fb33a281800] AVC: nal size 0 [h264 @ 0x7fb33a281800] no frame!