Firefox periodically opens to a broken new tab, blank tab
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(External Software Affecting Firefox :: Other, defect, P3)
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(Reporter: rjhansen075, Unassigned)
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Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic
OS: Linux 4.15.0-46-generic
Firefox Quantum 66.0.1 (64-bit)
Build: 20190322095656
Multiprocess Windows 1/1 Enabled by user
Web Content Processes 9/8
Enterprise Policies Inactive
Using Firejail: NO
The problem has gotten worse with the latest Firefox Update (Ubuntu Package version 66.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.18. amd64)
Comment 49•6 years ago
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To elaborate...
The problem did go away after I stopped using firejail with firefox.
It returned with recent firefox versions and now persists despite firejail not being used.
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Comment 50•6 years ago
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Yeah, I'm still using Defender and Firefox, and every once in a blue moon I get a stub start as described and have to kill it from Task Manager. Whatever Avast is doing makes the problem worse on my system, but there's also an underlying problem of some kind. Sounds like this is an edge case though, so maybe it gets fixed and maybe it doesn't.
I checked my crash log and there's nothing there. It looks like the problem locks up the initialization process at launch before crash logging begins.
Still totally usable, but Avast is no longer an option and I prefer Avast to Defender. I prefer Firefox more, is all.
Comment 51•6 years ago
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the same problem affect me .I use ubuntu 18.04 bionic x86_64 system with firefox quantum 66.0.2 in firejail。 It can random appear ,sometimes on startup ,especially a long time a do not operate on the browser after starting up. But without firejail ,It seldom happenned .
Comment 52•6 years ago
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This problem affects to me also. I'm using ubuntu 18.04 x86_64 system with firefox quantum 66.0.3
Many times during the day, when I open a new tab appears blank and I have to open another one until website appears.
I've seen this happening when the 66 version appears, but still happening in .0.2 and 0.3
Please help!
Comment 53•6 years ago
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I'm having the same problem, too. I'm using Kubuntu 18.04 and this started some months ago. I never used firejail, starting firefox without add-ons does not help in this case. Every third or forth new tab I'm opening stays blank and is completely broken. Very annoying problem and I'm not seeing any related error in browser console.
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Same here (FF 66.0.5/Win7 Pro SP1), several times a day. I first notice it a couple of years ago also for a while, then it corrected unit maybe 3-4 versions ago.
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Also having this problem. Opened up a ticket about the bug. I understand Mozilla volunteers aren't paid for committing their personal time towards bug hunting, but Mozilla seems intent on not addressing this issue and exhausting as many efforts as they can directing users to try safe mode and uninstalled and installing, reinstalling Windows, when the problem is well documented. And surged in v.64 until now.
I don't like Chrome and hate that Fisher Price designed software. I don't want to stop using Firefox because I spend more time troubleshooting bugs than using the web.
Comment 56•6 years ago
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Also experiencing sub-start problems. I had to start and kill Firefox Beta this past weekend at least 3 dozen times before it finally loaded. No amount of restarting or cold booting helped aid the problem.
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(In reply to Alex from comment #55)
Also having this problem. Opened up a ticket about the bug.
Assuming you're talking about bug 1549649, that's different from this bug, which is about the initial tab that loads when Firefox opens being blank.
The older comments here relate to AVAST and/or firejail causing issues, the more recent comments suggest similar things happen in other situations, but there's no clear root cause and thus no solution.
Mozilla seems intent on not addressing this issue
This is casting aspersions, and unhelpful. I don't know why you think we would produce software and then deliberately intend not to fix bugs in current, supported versions... it doesn't make a lot of rational sense.
and exhausting as many efforts as they can directing users to try safe mode
Because we need to work out what's causing the problem, given that Firefox works fine for me and countless other people, and I never see blank tabs. To be clear: I 100% believe that it's broken for other people, but in order to fix that we need to know what is different between your setup and mine in order to work out where the problem comes from. Asking people to try safe mode helps rule out certain reasons the problems might happen.
and uninstalled and installing, reinstalling Windows,
I don't know who advocates this (not me!), but it's unlikely to help.
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Given the fact that v.64 caused the recent issues to flair up and Mozilla hasn't made a major effort in tracking down what causes this bug that's incredibly annoying leads me to make such a sweeping statement. That said, I also get dead tabs on startup or it not working at all. I do use Avast, but I also used their cleaner utility in the past because I know Avast didn't play nice with Firefox years ago.
Sub-starts are annoying but my current problems revolve around beta and nightly for that, and I suspect that's just an issue with non-stable versions. The blank tabs/dead tabs is a problem that affects mainstream/stable versions of Firefox, too.
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In firefox 67, 68 and 69 the same. I filled this bug 1565185 before knowing about this one. In Ubuntu Mate 16.04 and Ubuntu Mate 18.04. Different computers and different configurations...
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I have what seem to be 2 separate "dead tab" issues. However, both are intermittent and I haven't found a controlled way to always reproduce them:
- I open a new tab in a new firefox profile (no addons); I type a link and hit [Enter]; the little grey progress dot goes back and forth but for at least 10 minutes there is no actual sign of the page getting loaded; e.g. no "Waiting for example.com" or "Performing TLS handshake..." at the bottom, no text or images appear; the page remains white and blank. There is also no output in the browser console.
Screenshots: https://drive.google.com/open?id=12dENbDqPeaY1MwfFiTFKxPPJ8IfHHJOn, https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-02u90aH7D0AXCwYaOjrkgdAvAcehioM - less thoroughly documented: I "triple click" a link (on a touchpad) to open it in a new tab (haven't tried a new profile with no addons yet); the tab opens with the page title in the tab itself, but the page is blank and there is no grey progress dot. I'll reply back if I can capture more details on this one.
I would be happy to provide more debug details if I knew what would be helpful.
Version Details:
Name Firefox
Version 71.0
Build ID 20191205184924
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:71.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/71.0
OS Linux 4.15.0-1065-oem
Comment 61•5 years ago
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(In reply to n.marti from comment #60)
I have what seem to be 2 separate "dead tab" issues. However, both are intermittent and I haven't found a controlled way to always reproduce them:
- I open a new tab in a new firefox profile (no addons); I type a link and hit [Enter]; the little grey progress dot goes back and forth but for at least 10 minutes there is no actual sign of the page getting loaded; e.g. no "Waiting for example.com" or "Performing TLS handshake..." at the bottom, no text or images appear; the page remains white and blank. There is also no output in the browser console.
Screenshots: https://drive.google.com/open?id=12dENbDqPeaY1MwfFiTFKxPPJ8IfHHJOn, https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-02u90aH7D0AXCwYaOjrkgdAvAcehioM
Please file a separate bug with these details. Please include some context about your network connection, and check the browser console (not the regular developer console) for errors - ctrl-shift-j
is the appropriate shortcut on Linux. Please needinfo me on the bug.
- less thoroughly documented: I "triple click" a link (on a touchpad) to open it in a new tab (haven't tried a new profile with no addons yet); the tab opens with the page title in the tab itself, but the page is blank and there is no grey progress dot. I'll reply back if I can capture more details on this one.
Same thing here please.
Comment 63•5 years ago
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Closing because no crashes reported for 12 weeks.
Comment 64•5 years ago
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It's nice when bots are helpful but this is not one of those times, clearly...
Comment 65•2 years ago
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Comment 66•1 year ago
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I am no longer having this problem. I'm not going to close it "works for me," as it was reopened, but I would recommend this if I am blocking that action.
Comment 67•1 year ago
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Thanks for the update Russ! I'll close this out; we can create a new bug or reopen this one if the problem reappears.
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