Opensuse Leap 42.2 guide is causing Firefox to crash

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I’m trying to learn Linux, and this isn’t helping. Can anyone else duplicate this webpage crashing Firefox? http://opensuse-guide.org/ (Specifically the pages in the ‘Fundamentals’ section).

Firefox 52.1.1 for Leap 42.2
KDE Plasma 5.8.6
Kernel 4.4.70-18.9-default

I am trying to reinstall Chrome after the system upgrade, so I don’t have a second browser. Is there another I can try that comes with 42.2?

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On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 21:46:01 +0000, dcnblues wrote:

> I’m trying to learn Linux, and this isn’t helping. Can anyone else
> duplicate this webpage crashing Firefox? http://opensuse-guide.org/
> (Specifically the pages in the ‘Fundamentals’ section).
>
> Firefox 52.1.1 for Leap 42.2 KDE Plasma 5.8.6 Kernel 4.4.70-18.9-default
>
> I am trying to reinstall Chrome after the system upgrade, so I don’t
> have a second browser. Is there another I can try that comes with 42.2?

Not crashing here.

You could try using Konqueror.

Jim

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Also, do you have any Firefox plugins installed? Maybe disable them
(there’s a safe mode startup option you can invoke for Firefox) and see if
that helps.

You may also want to try with a different Linux user (create a
temporary/testing one) in case your Firefox profile is munged and somehow
causing this.

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Re Firefox

  • When you say FF crashed, do you mean that the app won’t open at all, or it opens then shuts down when attempting to load that page… or something else?
  • “Crashing” usually means that the app (or whatever) shut down suddenly and completely. If FF is still open but cannot load the web page, it should be displaying an error message on the screen, you should post that.
  • You should also try accessing other web pages to suggest whether there is a problem with that specific website or if your problem is more general.

Re: Chrome

  • Do you really mean Chrome (which can only be installed from Google, not openSUSE) or do you mean Chromium (Which is available from openSUSE)?

TSU

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I went through every page from the “Fundamentals” section. Nothing crashed here.

Firefox 52.1.1 for Leap 42.2
KDE Plasma 5.8.6
Kernel 4.4.70-18.9-default

Yes, exactly the same here.

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That did the trick. It was a dark theme (black fox v2) at fault. Many thanks, I don’t know why that didn’t occur to me. New OS, learning linux, etc…

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On 06/17/2017 05:56 PM, dcnblues wrote:
>
> ab;2826661 Wrote:
>> Also, do you have any Firefox plugins installed? Maybe disable them
>> (there’s a safe mode startup option you can invoke for Firefox) and see
>> if
>> that helps.
>>
>> You may also want to try with a different Linux user (create a
>> temporary/testing one) in case your Firefox profile is munged and
>> somehow
>> causing this.
>
> That did the trick. It was a dark theme (black fox v2) at fault. Many
> thanks, I don’t know why that didn’t occur to me. New OS, learning
> linux, etc…

Thanks for the response; this happens once in a while, and of course it’s
hard to troubleshoot things you may know (Firefox) when those may seem to
be overshadowed by things you do not know (an entirely new,
superbly-awesome, vastly-superior operating system). Sharing your results
will likely help others in a similar situation, so thanks for that.

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