Firefox puts many messages on launch screen

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If I run firefox (firefox &), I get a zillion messages like:

console.error:  Message: Error: Transaction canceled due to a closed connection.
  Stack:
    ConnectionData.prototype<.executeTransaction/promise<@resource://gre/modules/Sqlite.jsm:560:15
Spinner.prototype.observe@resource://gre/modules/AsyncShutdown.jsm:550:9
nsAsyncShutdownClient.prototype.addBlocker/moduleBlocker/<@resource://gre/components/nsAsyncShutdown.js:157:15
Promise@resource://gre/modules/Promise.jsm -> resource://gre/modules/Promise-backend.js:386:5
nsAsyncShutdownClient.prototype.addBlocker/moduleBlocker@resource://gre/components/nsAsyncShutdown.js:153:29
Barrier/this.client.addBlocker/promise</trigger@resource://gre/modules/AsyncShutdown.jsm:719:23
Barrier.prototype<._wait@resource://gre/modules/AsyncShutdown.jsm:866:7
Barrier.prototype<.wait@resource://gre/modules/AsyncShutdown.jsm:850:28
Spinner.prototype.observe@resource://gre/modules/AsyncShutdown.jsm:533:17

If I run it as root, I am flooded with jibberish:

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This makes Firefox slow to a crawl.

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One thing is for sure, you should NEVER run Firefox (or any other browser) as root.
And when you still want to do it, do not confess it here. We have to tell you that one shouldn’t because we have many people reading here and they should not copy your behaviour.

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It is purely internal–across my room. Never goes outside.
But it should still not spawn infinite gibberish.

4

the user part of your issues look like a bad addon or profile
you could try renaming your mozilla profile

mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.old

restart firefox
about the root issues I have no idea
how did you try and run firefox as root?
did you use kdesu (or gnomesu)?
I would ignore the root errors and never run firefox as root
you could also tell if your system is up to date and from where did you get firefox from

zypper up
zypper se -si firefox

telling us your repos is a must

zypper lr -d
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The solution is simple. Don’t run firefox that way.

I actually do run it from a terminal (with a script). But I use:

firefox [arguments] > $HOME/tmp/ffout 2>&1 &

If I want to see the output, I can browse through “tmp/ffout”. But normally, I don’t want to see them.

If I run it as root, I am flooded with jibberish

I never run firefox as root.

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I need to start reading the full comments before replying
so Firefox dumps some info if run from a console as an ordinary user
as far as I could tell it was related to some of your addons
you said you ran firefox as root from a console
well **under openSUSE you can not run a gui application as root from a terminal
**that doesn’t mean you can’t run a gui app as root but you can’t run it from a console you’d need to use kdesu or gnomesu or xdg-su
it’s a security feature which can be changed (just search the forums I remember a few threads about running gui apps with sudo) and that was the reason for the "jibberish"you need to understand that root is a different user andaddons you’ve installed under your profile are inaccessible by root, root will create it’s own firefox user profile in /root/.mozilla

edit
well again I’m not sure I understood your first post
did you manage to get firefox running from a terminal as root?

This makes Firefox slow to a crawl.

did you change any security settings?
if not a bug report is needed.

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The OP could try disabling or maybe removing any plugins, adding one at a time and seeing which one is causing the problem. For instance mine - I did know that this plugin had problems


firefox
(firefox:16812): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory base/ of theme oxygen has no size field

1497514492874   addons.manager  WARN    Exception calling callback: SyntaxError: missing ; before statement (resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm -> jar:file:///home/john/.mozilla/firefox/rs5sesxw.default/extensions/export-bookmarks@toolbar.org.xpi!/bootstrap.js -> jar:file:///home/john/.mozilla/firefox/rs5sesxw.default/extensions/export-bookmarks@toolbar.org.xpi!/content/ui.js:8:40) JS Stack trace: include@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm -> jar:file:///home/john/.mozilla/firefox/rs5sesxw.default/extensions/export-bookmarks@bootstrap.js:55:2 < startup/<@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm -> jar:file:///home/john/.mozilla/firefox/rs5sesxw.default/extensions/export-bookmarks@bootstrap.js:36:3 < safeCall@AddonManager.jsm:189:5 < makeSafe/<@AddonManager.jsm:205:25 < Handler.prototype.process@Promise-backend.js:932:23 < this.PromiseWalker.walkerLoop@Promise-backend.js:813:7 < this.PromiseWalker.scheduleWalkerLoop/<@Promise-backend.js:747:11

And after removing it -


firefox

(firefox:17539): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme directory base/ of theme oxygen has no size field


** (firefox:17539): WARNING **: Invalid borders specified for theme pixmap:                                                                                                 
        /usr/share/themes/Breeze/gtk-2.0/../assets/line-h.png,                                                                                                              
borders don't fit within the image

The second warning only applies to some or one initial web page load. The only add on I have installed now is flash but many web pages tell me it’s not up to date. I just click allow when firefox warns me about this. Naughty really as often updates are security related.

Plugins for me have miss behaved in the past for 2 reasons. They haven’t been updated as the browser is updated or even not running the latest version of the browser. Often if the plugin hasn’t been kept up to date others will be available.

John

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where is your flash from?

zypper se -si flash

if you get flash from packman and you have auto updates on it will be automatically updated, adobe has started to follow MS and releases new flash updates every patch tuesday after which mozilla blocks old versions
if you have auto updates disabled (the update applet) you’d need to regularly run (at least after the first tuesday of the month)

zypper up

to keep flash up to date