Closed Bug 1788016 Opened 3 years ago Closed 3 years ago

On a regular basis, flatpak Firefox "had a problem and crashed", "crash reporter is unable to submit a crash report", "application did not leave a crash dump file"

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(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect)

Firefox 105
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RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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(Reporter: hanno.zulla, Unassigned)

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:104.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/104.0

Steps to reproduce:

  • Use Firefox 103 and 104 during a typical home office day.
  • Keep the laptop with several open Firefox tabs turned on over night
  • Return to the home office next morning

Actual results:

On several mornings, I would find the Firefox window closed and a single notification window on the desktop:

"Firefox had a problem and crashed. We'll try to restore your tabs and windows when it restarts. Unfortunately the crash reporter is unable to submit a crash report. Details: The application did not leave a crash dump file."

Expected results:

Firefox should not crash over night.

When it does crash, it should at least report a more helpful error message or a crash dump file.

I have no idea how to debug this or give you a more helpful bug report than "my Firefox repeatedly crashes overnight".

This is the flatpak version of Firefox, running on Ubuntu 22.04 with snap-Firefox removed and flatpak used instead.

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Widget: Gtk
Product: Firefox → Core

Should add that so far, this always happens during my absence. I haven't seen a Firefox crash or this error message while I'm actually using the computer.

Schroedinger's Firefox - can't tell if my Firefox is dead unless I unlock the computer in the morning.

Problem still persists with version 105.

Summary: flatpak Firefox "had a problem and crashed", "crash reporter is unable to submit a crash report", "application did not leave a crash dump file" → On a regular basis, flatpak Firefox "had a problem and crashed", "crash reporter is unable to submit a crash report", "application did not leave a crash dump file"
Version: Firefox 104 → Firefox 105

I haven't seen this with Firefox 106 since a while. Possibly, the cause of this has been fixed. Closing this for now.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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