Anyone else experiencing Firefox 91 crashes?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

This issue happens here on Slint only if Orca is active (using a 
repackaged official binary of firefox-91).

This is consistent with Alexander's assumption

Cheers,
Didier
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Didier Spaier
Slint maintainer
diider (at) slint (dot) fr


Le 16/08/2021 à 19:25, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 02:46:25PM +0000, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I don't remember when did I update my software the last time, but I have
>> Firefox 91 64-bit installed and in the few recent days, it's crashing
>> quite intensively.
>>
>>
>> Like, I launch it, type something into the search field... Crash!
>>
>> I launch it again, type google url to the search field, enter my search
>> term on the page and while typing... Crash!
>>
>> I want to install an addon and even if I somehow manage to enter my
>> query and get the search results, when I actually click on one... Crash!
>>
>>
>> It's really annoying, the browser is almost unusable. My cache and
>> cookies are cleared automatically after every run, so this shouldn't be
>> the source of the issues.
>>
>> I've tried the troubleshooting mode and it behaves in the same way, so
>> extensions also don't seem to be guilty.
>>
>> I have even downloaded a portable version of the browser from the
>> Mozilla website and it crashes as well.
>>
>>
>> The only thing that comes on my mind that it's a bug in the browser, but
>> I didn't find anything about it when searching.
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have similar experiences?
>>
>>
>> Firefox 91.0 64-bit, Ubuntu mate 20.04 64-bit.
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>>
>> Rastislav
> 
> i faced this problem too. for now I have rolled back to ff 90.0.2
> and try to use chrom whenever possible.
> I think these crashes have something to do with the accessibility stack. otherwise they would have been noticed earlier.
> 
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> Sincerely, Alexander
> 
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