Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes on some www-pages on a newer Gentoo system

[gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com>]

вс, 16 сент. 2018 г. в 11:09, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>:
>
> Mick wrote:
> > On Sunday, 16 September 2018 08:19:30 BST gevisz wrote:
> >> пт, 7 сент. 2018 г. в 19:05, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>:
> >>> On Friday, 7 September 2018 16:32:40 BST gevisz wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Something else I came across causing FF crashes here, was a bug with
> >>> profile- sync-daemon (recent thread of mine refers).  I don't know if you
> >>> use psd, but I wasn't aware of this psd bug when you posted about your
> >>> problems.  I only mention it now as another thing to check next time you
> >>> have FF crashing on you.
> >> Thank you for additional information.
> >>
> >> I have read in this mailing list (may be it was your thread) that using
> >> profiles in firefox is another source of crashes. So, I do not use
> >> profiles, and now hope that it means that I do not use psd as well. :)
> > Ah! No, they are too different things.
> >
> > I have not read anywhere that the use of multiple user profiles causes FF to
> > crash.  Perhaps some addons may do.
> > <<SNIP>>
>
> I have nine Firefox profiles here.  Any problems I have had have turned
> out to be a bad add on.  Sometimes I turn off auto update and new
> Firefox doesn't like old add on.

Probably, you meant that problems with old add ons arise when firefox
auto update is turned on. If so, I do agree.

> It is rare that I have Firefox crash.

Unfortunately, even a rare Firefox crash has long standing consequences. :(

> It may get slow at times but it keeps chugging along.  Generally I have
> four or five profiles running and sometimes even more.  I use different
> profiles for different tasks with different add ons.  I've noticed that
> the more add ons one has, the slower it tends to get.  I sort of spread
> them out a bit.

If multiple Firefox profiles do not increase the probability of its crash
any more, than it is a good news because they are really useful.

Anyway, I still afraid to use them so far.